Orpheus Sings for Pluto and Proserpina (Paris)
Object type | Painting |
Genre | Classical Mythology |
Date | 1594 |
Dimensions | 26.5 x 36.5 cm |
Support | Copper |
Medium | Oil |
Our attribution | Produced in Jan Brueghel's Studio |
Location/Most Recent Sale | Paris, Robert Lebel, 1977 |
Tags | Nude, Demons, Hell/Underworld, Classical, History, Mythological, Musical instruments |
This version is not in Ertz 2008-10. I think that it is a real Jan Brueghel but that it might be slightly later than the other versions, because it has a tangle of nude figures of the sort that Jan adapts a bit later. The date could have been tampered with or misread.