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Allegory of abundance
A reflection of the alliance of two brilliant artists, this work brilliantly incarnates the successful production of the two artists. Several allegories on the theme of the seasons, the four elements and the five senses, were painted by our two artists; this painting, of which only one other known version exists in Glasgow, is an exceptional work full of verve and poetry, typical of works from Antwerp painted in the first third of the 17 th century.
Provenance
A. Colombo Collection;
Private collection
Publication(s)
K. ERTZ, Jan Brueghel der Ältere, 1979, Dumont Buchverlag, Köln, p.389, p.608, ill. P.390, pl.462
K. ERTZ, Brueghel – Brueghel, Tradizione e Progresso: Una Famiglia di Pittori Fiaminghi tra Cinque e Seicento, exhibition catalogue, Cremona 1998.
Exhibition(s)
Cremona, Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, Brueghel – Brueghel, Tradizione e Progresso:
Una Famiglia di Pittori Fiaminghi tra Cinque e Seicento, September 26th – December 20th 1998 ;
Madrid, Fundacion Carlos de Amberes, Tiempo de Paces, La pax Hispaica y la tregua de los Doce anos, October 26th 2009 – January 31st 2010.