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Diana and Her Nymphs Fishing (Allegory of Air, Water & Earth)

Diana and Her Nymphs Fishing (Allegory of Air, Water & Earth)

Object type Painting
Genre Classical Mythology
Date 1621-1625
Dimensions 58.7 x 81 cm
Support Panel
Medium Oil
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #350
Ertz 1979, #374
Location/Most Recent Sale Munich, Gallery Bernheimer, 1998, cat. #7
Tags Deer, Dog, Fish, Van Balen, Pendant, Forest, River, Nude, Allegory, Classical, History, Mythological
Zoege van Manteuffel 1923, p. 10
Jost 1963, p. 126
Müllenmeister 1978, vol. 2, p. 43, #76a
Ertz 1979, cat. #374
Müllenmeister 1983, pp. 394-95, fig.s 1-3
Robels 1989, p. 143, n. 339
Cologne/Antwerp/Vienna 1992, pp. 312-13
Werche 2004, cat. #A 82, pp. 165-66
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #350
Ksth. de Bon, Amsterdam, 1954, without cat.#
London 1979, cat. #39
Cologne/Antwerp/Vienna 1992, cat. #31.2
1751 Munich Maximilian Joseph III, Elector Bavaria, Nymphenburg, by 1751, inv. #156
1799 Munich Carl Theodor, Elector of the Palatinate, Munich Residence, inv. #389
1923 Germany Sale to Galerie de Boer
Crown Prince Ruprecht, son of King Ludwig III
1930 to 1954 Munich Loaned by him to the Alte Pinakothek, inv. #849; deaccessioned in 1954
1954 Amsterdam Sale to Galerie de Boer
Until 1977 San Simeon, CA Hearst Collection
1978 Solingen Gallery Kurt Mullenmeister
1997 New York, NY Sale, Christie's, New York, Jan 31, 1997, inv. #14 (as "Jan Brueghel and Hendrick van Balen")
E.A. Honig
April 17, 2013

Ertz thinks that this work is the pendant to Ertz 2008-10 cat. #354; Werche agrees.

Copy sold Paris (Tajan) June 22, 2006, #18 as Jan the Younger and studio of Van Balen (panel, 53.5 x 81).

Ertz originally thought that Snyders was involved in the execution of this work but Robels disputed that. There is a Hollar print related to the hunting gear in this painting.