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Fruit Garland with Offering to Ceres (Brussels)

Fruit Garland with Offering to Ceres (Brussels)

Object type Painting
Genre Garland
Date ca. 1618
Dimensions 102 x 68.6 cm
Support Panel
Medium Oil
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #489
Ertz 1979, #341
Location/Most Recent Sale Brussels, Dexia Bank
Tags Deer, Monkey, Parrot, Van Balen, Putti, Angels, Flowers, Fruit, Garland, Vegetables
Annual Report, Mauritshuis, 1895, p. 97
Jost 1963, p. xi
Balis & Coessens 1997, #49
Ertz 1979, pp. 316, 614, cat. #341
Mulders 2000, p.120
Werche 2004, cat. #87
Los Angeles-The Hague 2006, 156-65
Ertz 2008-10
London 1979, cat. #37
Brussels 1997-98, cat. #49
Antwerp 1998, cat. #87
Los Angeles-The Hague 2006, cat. #20, not exhibited
Weymouth Collection of Captain Montague Thomas
Jul 13 1895 London Sale, Lot #82
19th century New York, NY Collection of Salomon van Berg
New York, NY Collection of Bart van Berg
Jun 25 1969 London Sale, Sotheby's, Lot #86
London Duits, Ltd.
1969 Brussels Acquired by Dexia Bank
E.A. Honig
April 14, 2013

The Los Angeles-The Hague catalogue from 20006 presents copious evidence and argument that this version is the prime one, and that the Hague version is a somewhat later copy. They date this one from ca. 1617 but the Hague version ca. 1621-22. They therefore argue that it is the present version that is depicted in Brueghel and Rubens's Sense of Taste (Madrid) which is dated 1618.