Temptation of St. Anthony in a Forest (Italy)
| Object type | Painting |
| Genre | Religious |
| Date | ca. 1595 |
| Dimensions | 42.2 x 58 cm |
| Support | Copper |
| Medium | Oil |
| Our attribution | Produced Outside Jan Brueghel's Studio |
| Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #290 |
| Location/Most Recent Sale | Italy, Private Collection |
| Tags | Traveling, Forest, Demons, New Testament, Saint |
Has been attributed to both Coninxloo and Jan Brueghel. My sense of this painting is that it is a wonderful and wildly inventive work but that the inventions are not characteristic of Jan, who tends to keep reusing good visual forms once he has invented them. Items like the Bacchic procession etc -- not Jan. It is however a very intriguing mixing of the classical and the Christian!