Pan and Syrinx

General Info

Object Type:

Painting

Genre:

Classical Mythology

Dimensions:

25 x 19.4 cm

Medium:

Support:

Copper

Year:

ca. 1605

Location/Last Sold:

London, England, National Gallery, inv. #659

Attribution

Ertz 2008-10, #385

Ertz 1984, cat. #254 as Jan the Younger

Honig database as Jan and studio

National Gallery as follower of Jan Brueghel the Elder

Our Attribution:

Produced in Jan Brueghel's Studio

External Links

Object Page at the National Gallery Website

Provenance

map

1860	Paris, France	Acquired from the Edmond Beaucousin Collection
1951 to 1956	Newcastle upon Tyne, England	On loan to the Laing Art Gallery
1958 to 1963	Barnsley, England	On loan to Cannon Hall

Additional Information

Bibliography

Von Frimmel 1905, p. 61 (as De Clerck

Peltzer 1916, p. 345, #35 (as Rottenhammer)

Jost 1963, p. 116

Werche 2004, cat. #A 105, p. 177

Ertz 2008-10, cat. #385

Peltzer 1916, p. 345, #35

Jost 1963, p. 116

Werche 2004, cat. #A 105, p. 177

Ertz 2008-10, cat. #385

Exhibition History

Kassel 2004, cat. #126

Discussion

1 Comment

Elizabeth Honig

Sun, 2013-07-07 17:00

There has been much disagreement about the attribution of both figures and landscape. The earliest London catalogue (1904) attributed the figures to Rottenhammer. Hendrick de Clerck has also been suggested. Ertz has wavered between attributing the landscape to Jan the Elder or the Younger. Werche says that the figures are Van Balen in around 1605-08 (which is also what Jost thought) so Jan the Younger cannot have done the landscape; it would be by Jan the Elder and/or his studio.

Permalink

Brueghel Family: Jan Brueghel the Elder

Pan and Syrinx

Object Type:

Genre:

Dimensions:

Medium:

Support:

Year:

Location/Last Sold:

Our Attribution:

Additional Information

1 Comment

Family Site

Pieter Bruegel Site

Object Type:

Genre:

Dimensions:

Medium:

Support:

Year:

Location/Last Sold:

Our Attribution:

Additional Information

1 Comment

Family Site

Pieter Bruegel Site

Search form