Orpheus Playing for the Animals (Paris)

General Info

Object Type:

Painting

Genre:

Classical Mythology

Dimensions:

34.5 x 47 cm

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Panel

Year:

ca. 1605

Location/Last Sold:

Paris, Ader Picard Tajan, June 29, 1989, #47 (as 'Jan Brueghel the Elder, Hendrick van Balen and Denis van Alsloot')

Collaborators:

Denis van Alsloot (1570-1628)

Hendrick van Balen (1575-1632)

Collaborator Notes:

Van Alsloot painted the animals and Van Balen painted Orpheus

Attribution

Ertz 2008-10, #380

Our Attribution:

Produced Outside Jan Brueghel's Studio

Provenance

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1980s

San Antonio, TX, United States

Fred Kline (acquired from a small auction in Austin)

Additional Information

Bibliography

Ertz 2008-10, cat. #380

Discussion

1 Comment

Elizabeth Honig

Thu, 2012-08-02 17:00

Another version in Madrid, Prado, cat. #1413 (copper, 30 x 40). Published by J.M. Gonzalez de Zarate in Archivo Espanol de Arte 62 (1989) pp. 354-359, fig. 21. wiki page although I doubt Jan's involvement in these.

Another weak version private collection, Rennes, 1998; panel, 33.8 x 45.7. Photo RKD.

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