Roelandt Savery

With Galerie Robert Finck, Brussels, by September 1964;

Thereafter acquired by the present collector.

Exposition de tableaux de maitres flamands du XV^e au XVIII^e siècle, exhibition catalogue, Brussels 1964, cat. no. 35, reproduced;

K.J. Müllenmeister, Roelant Savery, Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Freren 1988, pp. 115-116, 266, cat. no. 153, reproduced fig. 29.

Roelandt Savery populates this signed and dated depiction of Paradise with a wide variety of wild animals. Ostriches, geese, parrots, and other birds fill the composition and evoke a prelapsarian moment in the Garden of Eden.