The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
| Object type | Painting |
| Genre | Classical Mythology |
| Date | 1606-1609 |
| Dimensions | 54.5 x 76.5 cm |
| Support | Copper |
| Medium | Oil |
| Signature | H. de Clerck |
| Collaborators | Hendrick de Clerck |
| Our attribution | Jan Brueghel the Elder |
| Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #402 Ertz 1979, #148 |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Collection | Musée du Louvre |
| Accession numbers | inv. #RF 1945-17 |
| Tags | Feasting, Wedding, De Clerck, Nude, Putti, Classical, History, Mythological, Flowers, Food, Fruit, Musical instruments, Shells |
| External resources | Musée du Louvre |
Jacques Foucart, in his 1981 review of the Brussels Bruegel Dynasty show, said that that was not the same painting as the one inventoried in Brussels in 1659. Presumably there is something in the Louvre documentation that proves this.
Quite large for a copper painting -- one of largest Jan ever did on copper. Curiously he did a Marriage of Peleus and Thetis with Van Balen at around the same time also on a large copper plate, about same size. This is a complicated collaboration; Ertz too notes that the artists must have sent the plate back and forth quite a bit (p. 806).