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Madonna and Child in a Flower Garland with Putti (Munich)

Madonna and Child in a Flower Garland with Putti (Munich)

Object type Painting
Genre Garland
Date ca. 1617
Dimensions 185 x 210 cm
Support Panel
Medium Oil
Collaborators Peter Paul Rubens
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #465
Ertz 1979, #326
Location Munich, Germany
Collection Alte Pinakothek
Accession numbers inv. #331
Tags Rubens, Putti, Christ, Virgin Mary, Flowers, Garland
Karsch 1719, #181
Van Gool 1750/51, vol. 2, p. 544
Oldenbourg 1921, p.138
E. Kieserin in ''Munchener Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst'', 1950, p. 215, fig. 1, 3, 6
Winkelmann-Rhein 1968, pp.46
Ertz 1979, cat. #326, fig. 385, pp. 314, 611
Freedberg 1981, p. 115
I. van zur Muhlen in ''Munchener Jahrbuch'', 1990, pp.41-44
Van Mulders 2000, pp. 118-119
Renger/Denk 2002, pp. 336-41
Doherty et al. in Los Angeles/The Hague 2006, 245-246
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #465, p. 986
Merriam 2012, p. 48, fig. 2.1
Currie/Allart 2012, pp. 250
Jan Schmidt in Munich 2013, 109-123
Munich 2013, cat. #73, pp. 340-343
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Early 18th century Düsseldorf Galerie Düsseldorf
1806 Düsseldorf Galerie Düsseldorf, inv. #769
1822 Munich inv. #661
E.A. Honig
June 8, 2013

A similar fragment of puttis and a fruit garland (174 x 56 cm) in the Prado, Madird, #174, attributed to 'School of Rubens'

Van Mulders has suggested that this could have been the work made for the Duke of Buckingham, who certainly owned some sort of Madonna in a Garland. But this connection seems to be just speculation.

Christine Quach
June 8, 2014

Variant attributed to Jan Brueghel the Younger and studio of Rubens, sold Sotheby's London, July 7, 2005 (panel, 105.7 x 80.7 cm). This version lacks the surrounding putti and the central figures are painted on a separate panel inset into the larger one.

Ashley Jerbic
April 25, 2014

In particular, the intersecting branches and the hollyhock blossoms in the wings of the angel at the right are contributed to Rubens.

E.A. Honig
April 17, 2013

Rubens completed the figures first and then sent the the piece to Jan Brueghel to finish the garland. In this is it unlike most of the collaborative works by these two, in which Jan seems to have taken the initiative and did the first stages of execution. It is also the largest collaboration by Rubens and Brueghel and was begun on a panel made up of seven planks, enlarged (as was typical of Rubens) by two more planks during the process of painting.