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Flower Garland Around the Holy Family, Elizabeth and John (Zurich)

Flower Garland Around the Holy Family, Elizabeth and John (Zurich)

Object type Painting
Genre Garland
Date ca. 1620
Dimensions 73 x 59 cm
Support Panel
Medium Oil
Collaborators Jan Brueghel the Younger
Our attribution Produced in Jan Brueghel's Studio
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #478
RKD as Jan Brueghel the Younger and circle/follower of P. R. Rubens
Location/Most Recent Sale Zürich, Koller Auction, inv. #22.09.2006
Tags Insects, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Holy family, Flowers, Garland
l'Art Belge au XVIIe Sciecle'', Brussels, 1910, cat. 15 as Jan Brueghel the Elder and Rubens
Brueghel exhibition, Brussels, 1980, cat. 173
Sotheby's, London, July 5, 1981, #339
Zurich, August 18-22, 2006, #3024, as Jan Brueghel the Elder
Antwerp Roos Collection
1887 Antwerp Joseph de Pret-Roose de Calesbergh
1910 Brussels Comte Graaf Constantin de Bousies
1984 Brussels Collection of Baudouin de Bousies Boriuut
E.A. Honig
June 27, 2015

In Ertz 2008-10, the author asserts that the painting was made in collaboration with both Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601-1678) and an unidentified student of Peter Paul Rubens, Cat. 478, p. 1010.
A variant by Jan Brueghel I or Jan Brueghel II (76.2 x 63.5 cm) in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, formerly attributed to Daniel Seghers.