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Marriage of Peleus and Thetis

Marriage of Peleus and Thetis

Object type Painting
Genre Classical Mythology
Date 1608
Dimensions 44.5 x 61.5 cm
Medium Oil
Signature H.V. BAEL 1608
Support marks Mark of Peeter Stas
Our attribution Produced Outside Jan Brueghel's Studio
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #403
Ertz 1979, #194
Location Dresden, Germany
Collection Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
Accession numbers inv. #920
Tags Feasting, Wedding, Donkey, Van Balen, Forest, Nude, Putti, Classical, Mythological, Food, Fruit
Jost 1963, p. 101, n.72; pp. 109-10, fig. 17; pp. 113, 115, 118-19
Legrand 1963, p. 48
Ertz 1979, cat. #194, fig. 489
Froitzheim-Hegger 1993, pp. 162-63, n. 593, fig. 19
Essen/Vienna 1997, pp. 268-69, fig. 2
Werche 2004, #A 110, pp. 179-80
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #403
1722 Dresden Gemäldegalerie
E.A. Honig
July 8, 2015

There is the mark of Peeter Stas on the back of the copper panel, as well as a date of 1608.

Ertz 2008-10 lists a close replica on copper that could be autograph and that was formerly in an Antwerp collection; apparently there's a photo at the Witt.

E.A. Honig
December 13, 2015

Werche doesn't think this was done with Jan's assistance and I don't see it either. The foreground vegetation is thick, not fussy; the fruits & table stuff not particularly detailed; the background seems to lack his coloring. So this is probably a non-collaboration.