Venus and Mars in the Forge of Vulcan
| Object type | Painting |
| Genre | Allegory |
| Date | 1623 |
| Dimensions | 73.1 x 127 cm |
| Support | Panel |
| Medium | Oil |
| Our attribution | Produced in Jan Brueghel's Studio |
| Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #514 Ertz 1979, #383 |
| Location/Most Recent Sale | Unknown, Private Collection |
| Tags | Cosmology, Encyclopedic, Forge, Ruins, Van Balen, Putti, Classical, Armor |
I feel that this picture has many odd problems, like this suit of armor that's just too small in foreground (Jan would never do that). There are other scale problems here. It's a complicated and interesting painting and I wonder if it could be Jan the Younger working with Van Balen, or Jan's studio if the date of 1623 is genuine.
Very wooden copy on panel, 74.5 x 127, sold Paris (Hotel George V, 9 April 1990 #32) as Jan the Younger, illustrated in Ertz 2008-10 p. 1073 with a different auction house.