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Garland with Natura Adorned by the Three Graces

Garland with Natura Adorned by the Three Graces

Object type Painting
Genre Garland
Date ca. 1618
Dimensions 104.1 x 71.1 cm
Support Panel
Medium Oil
Collaborators Peter Paul Rubens
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #490
Ertz 1979, #349
Location Glasgow, Scotland
Collection Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Accession numbers inv. #609
Tags Monkey, Rubens, Nude, Angels, Demons, Flowers, Fruit, Garland, Vegetables
Walpole 1758, #11
Rooses 1886-1892, IV, #821
Oldenburg in Rubens catalog, 1921, #61
Evers 1943, pp. 237, 243-44
Held 1959, I, under #75
Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, cat. 1961, p.117, fig. 609
Hairs 1965, pp. 73, 301, 359, n. 180
Ertz 1979, fig. 387, cat. #349
Freedberg 1981, p. 132
Robels 1989, p. 356
Schuckman 1995, fig. 23
Van Mulders 2000, pp. 119-20
Los Angeles/The Hague 2006, pp.157, 162-63 & fig. 83
McGrath 2006
Ertz 2008-10, pp. 1033-35, cat. #490
London 1912, #14
London, R.A., 1938, #65
London, 1953/54, #194
Bruges 1956, #64
Brussels 2007, #24
1627 England Possibly sale by Rubens to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
1635 Villiers Gallery
1648 Antwerp Possibly sale to the 2nd Duke of Buckingham
May 19 1716 Paris Purchased by Chirurgen Rondon for Sir James Thornill|
1734 London Sale, Thornhill Collection, Lot #99
May 29 1746 London Sale, Mary Edwards Collection, Lot #140
1771 Amsterdam Sale, Braamcamp Collection, Lot #194
England Returned to the English Collection
May 31 1794 London Sale, Lawrence Dundas Auction of Collection of Dr. Ward, inv. #36
1804 Wales Collection of the Earl of Ashburnham
Jul 20 1850 London Sale, Ashburnham Collection, Lot #62
May 15 1852 Sale, Woodburg Collection, Lot #192
1877 Scotland Collection of Graham Gilbert
1877 Glasgow Donated to Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum by the widow of Graham Gilbert
E.A. Honig
February 7, 2015

Was engraved by Cornelis van Dalen the Younger, probably before 1648, without Jan's garland (See Schuckman 1995, "Hollstein" V., #23).

According to Van Mulders, Rubens kept this painting himself until 1624 when it went to Prince Wadislas of Poland and then to the Duke of Buckingham.

The garland in this picture is reused on collaborations between Jan and Van Balen. Although no drawing for this garland survives, the one that does (Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus, inv. D.IX.23) confirms (unsurprisingly) that Jan’s garlands were meant to be replicated using detailed drawn studies.