Jan Brueghel (attr) The Paradise, 4 Brass, Adam And Eve In The Garden Of Eden, Flanders 16th-xviii

Bronze immemorial pictorial topos, refined touch, soft shades of greens and blues, beauty of polysemous lush landscapes, exotic bestiary plural and captivating, this dazzling suite of four oils on Flemish copper is attributed to Jan Brueghel of Velours (1568 - 1625) entourage. Flemish Iconography of Paradise In the period from the sixteenth to the seventeenth centuries, Flemish painters specialized in the representation of exotic animals depicting divine creation under the influence of Roelandt Savery who had been able to observe exotic animals at court Of Rudolf II, Jan Brueghel the old one whose several works are related or Maerten de Vos whose "corpus paradisiaque" illustrating the "fall of man" in Genesis was engraved in tondo by Philippe Galle and Nicolas de Bruyn And "God speaks to Adam and Eve" by Jean Theodore de Bry. Corpus Brueghelien This polyptych, works of Jan Brueghel's former workshop, known as "Velours" or close entourage, is to be compared to the series of Four Elements ordered from 1607 by the Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, Federico Borromeo, of whom "The earth or the terrestrial Paradise which is included in the collections of the Louvre since 1616-1618 with L'Air, L'Eau et le Feu. It could also be works by his son Jan Brueghel Le Jeune: confers oil on an oak panel by Jan Brueghel Le Jeune: "Le Paradis", circa 1620 exhibited at the Gemälde Galerie in Berlin.
Dimensions in view of each copper: 29,7 cm x 12,2 cm - framed: 33 x 15,5 cm

Frame in gilded wood