Holy Family in a Landscape (Munich)
Object type | Painting |
Genre | Religious |
Date | ca. 1600 |
Dimensions | 27 x 35 cm |
Support | Copper |
Medium | Oil |
Collaborators | Hans Rottenhammer |
Our attribution | Jan Brueghel the Elder |
Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #248a Ertz 1979, #42 |
Location | Munich, Germany |
Collection | Alte Pinakothek |
Accession numbers | inv. #270 |
Tags | Rottenhammer, Putti, Angels, Biblical, New Testament, Virgin Mary, History, Landscape |
Related painting exhibited as Hammer Collection at Greenville S.C., Bob Jones University, 1957 as Bril and Rottenhammer: copper, 25 x 34.
Ertz had dated this to 1600 or after, but the Munich catalogue argues for an earlier date (1595-97), as had Schlichtenmaier on the basis of the Rottenhammer elements. I agree that the landscape seems very early but I don't see how the flowers could have been done in Rome/Milan or just after Jan returned to Antwerp. I am therefore using 1600 as a compromise date. The angels and flowers are clearly related to the Milan Winter Landscape with Angels Strewing Flowers, although the date of that is also disputed.