Live Auction 4936Old Masters & British Paintings
After Jan Brueghel II
Lot 19

After Jan Brueghel II

An Allegory of Earth

Closed4 May 2012

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GBP 7,500

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After Jan Brueghel II
An Allegory of Earth
oil on canvas
13¾ x 18½ in. (34.9 x 47 cm.)

Specialist note

The present composition derives from the series depicting The Elements, of 1611, by Jan Brueghel I, with figures by Hendrik van Balen, in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome. Versions of the complete set by Jan Brueghel II, with staffage also by van Balen, are in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyons, and one of the present composition alone is in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu.