Hendrick Van BALEN (1575-1632) and JAN BRUEGHEL the elder (1 - Lot 26

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Hendrick Van BALEN (1575-1632) and JAN BRUEGHEL the elder (1 - Lot 26
Hendrick Van BALEN (1575-1632) and JAN BRUEGHEL the elder (1568-1625) Diana and Actaeon Copper Frame in carved and gilded wood. French work of the Louis XVI period 16,5 x 26,5 cm. On the reverse side remains of an old label inscription : "Rotthamer". Related bibliography : catalog of the exhibition "Hans Rottenhammer begehrt - vergessen - neu entdeckt", Brake Castle in Germany and Prague, Národní gallery, 2008-2009, p.36. Bettina Werche, Hendrick Van Balen (1575-1632); Ein Antwerpener Kabinettbildmaler der Rubenszeit, Thurnhout, Brepols, 2004, volume I, pp.162-163, no. A74 and volume II, p.368. Another version of this composition, in which the figures belong to Hendrik van Balen, is in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. It is of the same size as our copper, and is probably based on a lost original by Rottenhammer. The variants mainly concern the elements on the ground, here on the right a frog - a crayfish in Munich-, and on the left, a pearl necklace and a chain next to the quiver - a fish and shells in Munich-. These naturalistic and miniaturized details seem to us to be in the hand of Jan Brueghel. The catalog of the Rottenhammer exhibition of 2008-2009 places these types of precious mythological creations, painted for private cabinets, at the very end of the sixteenth century, around 1599, when Rottenhammer met Jan Brueghel the Elder at the court of Rudolf II in Prague. The author mentions several cases where an original by the German painter inspired Van Balen, also in the same format and on copper, such as "The Judgment of Midas" in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, a copy of which is in the Sanssouci Castle in Potsdam (on these revivals, see in the proceedings of the Rottenhammer colloquium of 2007, Thomas Fusenig, Hans Rottenhammer und die Antwerpener Malerei des frühen 17. Jahrhunderts, in "Studien zur Kultur der Renaissance band. 4 Herausgegeben am Weserrenaissance-Museum Schloß Brake von Heiner Borggrefe und Vera Lüpkes Heiner Borggrefe, Hans Rottenhammer 1564-1625 ..., Marburg, 2007, Jonas Verlag, pp. 157-177).
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