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This type of allegorical representations of abundance or fecundity was very popular among cabinet paintings from this period. Artists such as Rubens, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Hendrick de Clerck and Hendrick van Balen, among others, also made such works, often in collaboration. Here, fertility is represented by a six-breasted figure at the center of the composition. She bears a horn of plenty and is
Como es habitual en Jan Brueghel el Joven, el modelo iconográfico para esta composición se encuentra en los paisajes de Adán y Eva en el Paraíso inventados por su padre, Jan Brueghel el Viejo, si bien los leones están tomados de "Daniel en el foso de los leones" (Milán, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana) y el ciervo es el mismo que figura en muchas de las guirnaldas de su progenitor. Sin embargo, al contrario
Isabel Clara Eugenia (1566-1633), Governor of the Southern Low Countries, is depicted walking in the park of the Palace of Coudenberg in Brussels, accompanied by a small retinue. The building is seen from the west façade, with the apse of the chapel built during the reign of Charles V.
In addition to major battles and lengthy sieges, seventeenth-century warfare also involved small skirmishes which affected the civil population. Sebastian Vrancx, whose initials appear on the rump of the dapple-grey horse in the foreground, painted the figures in this scene and Jan Brueghel the Younger the landscape.
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