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Paradise with Fall of Man (Brentford)

Paradise with Fall of Man (Brentford)

Object type Painting
Genre Religious
Date 1613
Dimensions 23.7 x 36.8 cm
Support Copper
Medium Oil
Signature ...EGHEL 1613
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #189
Location/Most Recent Sale Private Collection, China (pending export ban from UK)
Tags Harvesting, Cattle, Deer, Horse, Monkey, Parrot, Forest, Nude, Old Testament, Paradise
Barberi, Catalogo ragionato della Galleria Camuccini in Roma, 1851
Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, 1857, p. 471 (as at Alnwick)
Inventory of Effects at Alnwick Castle, 1865
Inventory of Pictures at Alnwick Castle, 1894
Collins Baker, Catalogue of the Pictures in the Collection of the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland at Syon House, Alnwick Castle, Albury Park and 17 Princes Gate, 1930, p. 14, cat. #52 (as hanging in Alnwick Castle)
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #189
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Hatton Gallery, Festival of Britain Exhibition, 1951, no. 3
Barnard Castle, The Bowes Museum, Northern Collections. Dutch and Flemish Painting of the 17th Century, Pottery and Porcelain, 1963, no. 4
Rome Collection of Pietro and Vincenzo Camuccini
1853 Northumberland Acquired with the Camuccini Collection by Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland
Brentford By descent, Collection of the Dukes of Northumberland, Syon House
Jul 9 2014 London Sale, Sotheby's, Lot #19 (for 6,802,500 pounds)
E.A. Honig
April 23, 2014

This is a variant of #188, possibly autograph. I looked at good photo at RKD and thought the execution was not as good as the Doria Pamphilj version. There is at least one other that could come from the studio, the formerly Goudstikker painting (Ertz 191). If the Doria Pamphilj one was shipped off to Rome (a large work on copper, surely done for a patron), I wonder how later duplicates got made; perhaps a case of beginning them all at the same time and then finishing as buyers appeared. The one Ertz now has as 190 is not genuine.