Live Auction 7201Old Masters & British Paintings
After Jan Breughel II
Lot 13

After Jan Breughel II

An Allegory of Earth

Closed24 October 2012

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GBP 13,750

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After Jan Breughel II
An Allegory of Earth
oil on canvas
21 x 36 7/8 in. (53.3 x 93.6 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.