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Flower Garland with the Holy Family and John the Baptist (Geneva)

Flower Garland with the Holy Family and John the Baptist (Geneva)

Object type Painting
Genre Garland
Date 1608
Dimensions 30.5 x 24 cm
Support Panel
Medium Oil
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #470
Ertz 1979, #188
Location/Most Recent Sale Geneva, Articor, 1979
Tags Insects, Van Balen, Angels, Holy family, John the Baptist, Flowers, Fruit, Garland
Ertz 1979, cat. #188, fig. 378
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #470
London 1979, cat. #20
London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1996, cat. #2
Before 1930 Berlin Collection of Paul Cassirer
After 1930 Amsterdam Collection of H.A. Weltzlar
London Richard Green Gallery
E.A. Honig
June 27, 2015

According to Ertz, this work was made shortly after the version in Milan (please see Flower Garland Around the Virgin and Child (Milan) c. 1607-08).
A poor copy by circle of Jan Brueghel the Younger and Jan van Balen (34 x 26 cm), sold by Christie's, London, Dec. 16, 1988, #118 as a follower of Jan Brueghel the Elder.

London 1979 catalogue lists 6 copies and variants which I have not checked:

  • Paris, Galerie Prado 1963 (panel, 47 x 34)
  • St. Petersburg (USA), Museum (panel, 46.3 x 34.3)
  • Brussels,sale Palais des Beaux-Arts 1967 (panel, 60 x 45)
  • Berlin, Graupe sale, 1935 (panel 114 x 93 -- strangely large)
  • Grand Rapids (USA), Museum (panel, 54.6 x 41.3)
  • Vienna, Dorotheum 1967 (copper, 11 x 9.5 -- presumably this was translated into inches at some point)