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Fruit and Flower Garland with the Holy Family in a Landscape (Munich)

Fruit and Flower Garland with the Holy Family in a Landscape (Munich)

Object type Painting
Genre Garland
Date ca. 1623
Dimensions 93.5 x 70.7 cm
Support Panel
Medium Oil
Collaborators Pieter van Avont
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #486
Ertz 1979, #381
Location Munich, Germany
Collection Alte Pinakothek
Accession numbers inv. #149
Tags Deer, Monkey, Parrot, Angels, Holy family, Flowers, Fruit, Garland, Vegetables
Ertz 1979, #381, fig. 392
Renger/Denk 2002, 92-95
Ertz 2008-10, #486
Bloem en Tuin in de Vlaamse Kunst'', Museum Gent, April 1960, cat. #37
Munich 2013, cat. #85
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Munich Kurfürstlichen Galerie
1922 Munich Alte Pinakothek, Catalogue of 1922, inv. #149
After 1930 Munich Schleißheim Painting Gallery
Munich Bavarian State Painting Gallery Collection, inv. #149
E.A. Honig
August 1, 2012

A copy by Jan Brueghel the Younger and Hendrik van Balen (I) sold at auction, London, Sotheby's, July 7, 2004 # 26.
There is a full drawing for the left part of the garland in Antwerp, Stedelijk Prentenkabinet.
According to Renger, the figures here were done first and the landscape was second.

E.A. Honig
April 20, 2013

Neumeister now says that garland was almost finished when figures were added; but also that the original plan (revealed in x-ray) was for a figural composition close to that of the Jan/Van Balen collaboration, Ertz 2008-10 #484. She suggests that reworking was done at request of a buyer, though did that person also suggest a new (and unique) collaborator??