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Feast of the Gods with Musical Nymphs

Feast of the Gods with Musical Nymphs

Object type Painting
Genre Classical Mythology
Date 1610-1615
Dimensions 47 x 66 cm
Support Copper
Medium Oil
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #408
Ertz 1979, #343
Werche 2004 as Van Balen and Jan Brueghel
Location Angers, France
Collection Musée des Beaux-Arts
Accession numbers inv. #358
Tags Feasting, Van Balen, Forest, Nude, Putti, Flowers, Food, Fruit, Musical instruments, Vegetables
External resources Musée des Beaux-Arts
Peltzer 1916, pp. 334, 353, fig. 25
Van den Borren 1934, pp. 193-99
Bardon 1960, p. 38
Jost 1963, p. 101, n. 72
Legrand 1963, p. 51
De Mirimonde 1964, p. 153, fig. 29
Ertz 1979, cat. #343, fig. 495
Froitzheim-Hegger 1993, pp. 176-182, n. 633
Essen/Vienna 1997, p. 73
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #408
Cologne/Antwerp 1992/93, cat. #29.1
Essen/Vienna 1997, cat. #80
18th century Collection of Marquis de Livois
1799 Musée des Beaux-Arts
E.A. Honig
March 20, 2014

Text of music reads: Peccora, corda, Animos musis beat, imbuit, auget Laetitia, esca, potus Musica, Manna merum."