Jan II Brueghel (the Younger) was the son of Jan I Brueghel (the Elder) and the grandson of Pieter Brueghel. After working for several years in Italy, he returned to Antwerp after the death of his father in 1625, where he took over the family workshop. He completed the unfinished paintings left by his father and, in the large studio with numerous employees, also produced his own work in the same style. This small panel, which depicts several animal studies – a falcon, two monkeys, a pheasant and a deer –, is one of the few oil sketches by this artist to have survived. These spontaneous, life-like images of animals, which are seen from multiple angles and in different states of completion, were used in the studio as models for several other paintings. The deer and pheasant are clearly recognizable in Diana Returning from the Hunt by Jan I Brueghel in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. Although the study was long attributed to the son, today it is considered the father's own handiwork.
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Jan I Brueghel
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| Title | Study of Monkeys, a Deer and Other Animals |
| Date | ca. 1623 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | apocryphal monogram bottom left: DTF |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1902-C |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
veiling Antwerp 1902 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1902-C |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/328/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300263554 animal paintings AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25F
animals
Iconclass
25F22 monkeys, apes Iconclass 25F24(DEER) hoofed animals: deer Iconclass 25F38(PHEASANT) walker and runner birds: pheasant Iconclass 48(+411) modelli Iconclass |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
| Museum van Schoone Kunsten : Catalogus ; Oude Meesters, Schilderstukken, teekeningen, plaatsneden (met geschiedkundig overzicht) / Maurice Dupuis, Georges Charles Nicolas Marie Hulin de Loo, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Drukkerij F. De Vos, 1938 ; Gent : Stad Gent, 1938 (p. 30-31 (Jan I Brueghel)) |
| "Bruegeliana" à propos de l'exposition de Bruxelles 1980 / Jacques Foucart. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (LI, p. 65) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent = Museum of Fine Arts Ghent / Claudie De Guillebon, Jacques Ostier, Robert Hoozee, Monique Tahon-Vanroose. - Parijs : Association des Amis de "Musées 2000", 1989 (p. 64 (ill. 124)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. I, p. 60-61 (ill.)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021 |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021 |
| Museum of Fine Arts Ghent : The Collection (exhibition opened on March 21th 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Ghent : Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2021 |
| Brueghel : De familiereünie (tentoonstelling , 's-Hertogenbosch, Het Noordbrabants Museum, 30.09.2023 - 07.01.2024) / Nadia Groeneveld-Baadj, Arthur J. DiFuria, Christine Göttler, Sarah Joan Moran, Marlise Rijks. - 's-Hertogenbosch : Het Noordbrabants Museum, 2023 ; Zwolle : WBOOKS, 2023 (p.96) |
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