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Paradise Landscape with Noah's Ark (Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum)

Paradise Landscape with Noah's Ark (Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum)

Object type Painting
Genre Religious
Date 1613
Dimensions 54.5 x 87 cm
Support Panel
Medium Oil
Signature BRUEGHEL FEC 1613
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #197
Ertz 1979, #273
Location Los Angeles, CA, United States
Collection J. Paul Getty Museum
Accession numbers inv. #92.PB.82
Tags Traveling, Cattle, Deer, Monkey, Parrot, Forest, Burghers, Old Testament, Paradise
External resources J. Paul Getty Museum
Ertz 1979, cat. #273
Faber Kolb, 2005
Silver 2006, pp. 213-14, fig. 10.5
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #197
London 1979, cat. #29
Los Angeles 1999-2000
Los Angeles-The Hague 2006, cat. #26
Before 1920 Vienna Private Collection
ca. 1920 Switzerland Private Collection
1979 London Thomas Brod Gallery
1992 Los Angeles, CA J. Paul Getty Museum
E.A. Honig
September 4, 2014

Veronika Gerhard says: according to the Getty, "All species of animals are portrayed, from large lumbering elephants to tiny turtles and hamsters in the foreground."
The hamsters are GUINEA PIGS.
For details s. Faber Kolb "The Entry...", p.10

E.A. Honig
July 31, 2012

There are many many copies and variants of this composition. Some are listed by Ertz as being by Jan the Younger.

  • Closest copy Budapest; on which see page.
  • Copy Utrecht, Centraal Museum, 1952 catalogue #1366 (panel, 66 x 87) -- photo RKD in earlier state, considerable paint loss
  • Copy Madrid, Prado, #1407 (copper, 56 x 88) -- Ertz, Jan II, #97
  • Copy Dessau, 1929 catalogue #266 (panel, 43 x 63) -- Ertz, Jan II, #99
  • Copy Milaan, Castello Sforzesco, cat. #458 (55 x 89) -- Ertz, Jan II, #94
  • Partial copy Antwerp, KMSK, 1948 cat. #5019 (panel, 28 x 36)
  • Copy Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, inv. #37.1998 (panel, 65 x 94)
  • Copy Pau, Museum, #1401 (panel, no size given)
  • Studio variant Orleans, Musee des Beaux-Arts, #1348 (panel, 55 x 110)
  • Copy Rennes, Musee des beaux-arts
  • Copy Earl of Verulam (panel, 55 x 87)
  • Copy attributed to Jan van Kessel w/ Johnny van Haeften in 1994 (panel, 55.5 x 88.9)
  • Poor copy in private collection, France (copper, 69.5 x 87.2)
  • Two very poor copies sold Versailles, Palais des Congres, February 29, 1976: #103 was panel, 44 x 56, and #104 was canvas, 54 x 74.
  • Another poor copy, location unknown: panel, 51 x 65.
  • Copy in Ireland (photo from National Gallery of Ireland), panel, 54 x 77. [wiki page]
  • Copy sold Christie's Monaco December 7, 1991; panel, 60 x 90, as attributed by Ertz to Jan the Younger. [wiki page]
  • Copy private collection, Vienna, 1992 as Jan the Younger; panel, 55.5 x 88.9 (wiki page)
  • Variant without ark (!) sold London (Christies) December 9, 1988 #136 (copper, 49.8 x 79.4)
  • Another variant without ark sold Brussels (Giroux) March 6-7, 1959 (panel, 65 x 91.5)
Jørgen Wadum
January 6, 2019

The back display the unidentified Antwerp panel maker's stamped mark 'RB'.