drawing
- Museum number
- SL,5214.166
- Description
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A sheet of various studies; Adam and Eve seated in a landscape at the foot of a tree surrounded by animals, various studies of animals above including a stag and doe, eagle, lion and lioness, leopard, horses, monkey and bison, with bunches of fruit and flowers to right; formerly in the 1637 album containing 279 miscellaneous drawings
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1583-1625
- Dimensions
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Height: 193 millimetres
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Width: 307 millimetres (corners cut)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Although unsigned and not directly related to any of Jan Brueghel's paintings, this study sheet can still be attributed to Brueghel. It is, however, less spontaneous than another study sheet showing birds, now in Herzog Anton-Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, inv.no.Z521. It is probably a study sheet for a painting showing the Garden of Eden. For a discussion of related paintings showing Paradise, see K. Ertz, "Jan Brueghel der Ältere: Die Gemälde", Cologne, 1979, pp.236-249.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5214.166
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: T,10.166
