Allegory of Abundance: Venus, Bacchus and Ceres (Prague)

General Info

Object Type:

Painting

Genre:

Allegory

Dimensions:

58.5 x 100.5 cm

Medium:

Support:

Panel

Year:

ca. 1618

Location/Last Sold:

Prague, Czech Republic, Narodní Galerie, inv. #O 10161 (old no. #DO 4940)

Attribution

Ertz 2008-10, #344

Slaví?ek 2000, #15, as Hendrick I van Balen and Jan Brueghel

Honig database as Jan and studio

Our Attribution:

Produced in Jan Brueghel's Studio

Provenance

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Before 1735	Haarlem, Netherlands	Possibly Collection of Johann van Schuylenburg
Sep 20 1735	The Hague, Netherlands	Sale
1938	Berlin, Germany	Acquired by Fritz Schleif
Until 1945	Münchengladbach, Germany	August Schubert Collection
	Ruprechtice, Czech Republic	Likely at Ruprechtice after August Schubert Collection
1945	Broumov, Czech Republic	Broumov Regional Museum, 1945-1946
1946	Prague, Czech Republic	National Gallery in Prague takes over Broumov in 1946

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Bibliography

Slaví?ek 2000, cat. #15

Werche 2004, cat. #A.41

Ertz 2008-10, cat. #344

Werche 2004, cat. #A.41

Ertz 2008-10, cat. #343

Discussion

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Elizabeth Honig

Thu, 2012-08-02 17:00

There is a workshop copy of this in the same museum, inv. #DO 4126 (panel, 60 x 103). Another copy formerly Frankfurt, collection S. B. Goldschmidt, sold F. Schwarz Jan. 11 1907 #12 (panel, 60 x 102). This latter work has been attributed by Ertz to Jan the Younger: Ertz 1984 #215.

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