Pan and Syrinx
Object type | Painting |
Genre | Classical Mythology |
Date | ca. 1605 |
Dimensions | 25 x 19.4 cm |
Support | Copper |
Medium | Oil |
Our attribution | Produced in Jan Brueghel's Studio |
Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #385 Ertz 1984, cat. #254 as Jan the Younger National Gallery as follower of Jan Brueghel the Elder |
Location | London, England |
Collection | National Gallery |
Accession numbers | inv. #659 |
Tags | Van Balen, Forest, Nude, Classical, History, Mythological, Flowers |
External resources | National Gallery |
There has been much disagreement about the attribution of both figures and landscape. The earliest London catalogue (1904) attributed the figures to Rottenhammer. Hendrick de Clerck has also been suggested. Ertz has wavered between attributing the landscape to Jan the Elder or the Younger. Werche says that the figures are Van Balen in around 1605-08 (which is also what Jost thought) so Jan the Younger cannot have done the landscape; it would be by Jan the Elder and/or his studio.