Antwerp School, 18th century

The support consists of three horizontal panels joined and cradled to the reverse. The paint surface and in good condition under an old yellowed varnish. Scattered discolored old retouching works are visible to the naked eye, along the panel join upper left, in the figure group and around the fruit and animals in the foreground. These are confirmed under UV light. Offered in an ornate carved gilt wood frame with some looses.
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A copy after Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hendrick van Balen's original composition in the Doria Pamphilij Gallery, Rome (K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere, Cologne 1979, pp. 370 and 559, no. 248).