Jan Brueghel the Younger and Frans Francken the Younger Antwerp 1578 - 1642 Antwerp 1601 - 1678

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Description

Jan Breughel the Younger
the virgin and child with the infant saint john the baptist, encircled by a garland of flowers
oil and gold on oak panel

Provenance

In the possession of the present owner's family since before 1927.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Flemish and Belgian Art 1300 to 1800, 1927, no. 238 (as Jan Brueghel and Frans Francken II), lent by G. Hulin de Loo.

Literature

Exhibition of Flemish and Belgian Art 1300 to 1800, exhibition catalogue, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1927, p. 91, cat. no. 238 (as Jan Brueghel and Frans Francken II, with incorrect height but correct width).

Catalogue Note

A very similar but slightly smaller floral wreath by Jan Brueghel the Younger, encircling a roemer partly filled with white wine on a stone ledge (oil on panel, 51.5 by 39 cm.), in Gray, Musée Baron Martin, on deposit from the Louvre, is dated by Klaus Ertz to the 1630s (see K. Ertz, Jan Breughel the Younger (1601-1678). The Paintings with Oeuvre Catalogue, Freren 1984, p. 462, no. 295a, reproduced p. 463). The two floral compositions differ in details, but the salient blooms are identically sited. Other floral wreaths by Jan Brueghel the Younger encircling religious subjects by Frans Francken the Younger on gold backgrounds are also dated by Ertz to the 1630s, but those in this and the Gray picture are more finely worked than the others, suggesting that they may perhaps date from early in the decade.