The Garden of Eden (after Jan Brueghel the elder)
probably Frederik Bouttats the Elder (1590 - 1661)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1626 - 1679
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
552 x 857 mm (21 3/4 x 33 3/4 in)
Place of origin
Antwerp
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732106
Summary
Oil painting on panel, The Garden of Eden, probably by Frederik Bouttats the elder (1590-1661), after Jan Brueghel the elder (Brussels 1568 – Antwerp 1625), or by Frederik Bouttats the Younger ([?] - Antwerp 1676). The scene shows a wooded landscape with birds and animals and a valley beyond on the left. Ducks swim on a pond in the left foreground and beside it a tree, whose trunk leans towards the left, occupies the centre foreground. Its branches are filled with a variety of birds, large and small. A stag with antlers, seen from behind, stands in front of the tree. A pair of cheetah are fighting on the right and behind them stands a white horse with a long mane with another brown horse, partly seen, behind it. To their left is a deer, a boar and two parrots sitting in a tree on the far right. In the central distance are the figures of Adam and Eve shown at the moment of the Tempatation.
Provenance
Probably in Stourhead house by 1800 as 'The Creation by Roland Savery'. Given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946.
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: On back of frame in pencil: Creation Verso: on right hand side in pencil: 338
Makers and roles
probably Frederik Bouttats the Elder (1590 - 1661), artist possibly Jan van Kessel I (Antwerp 1626 - Antwerp 1679), artist after Jan Brueghel the Younger (Antwerp 1601 - Antwerp 1678) , artist after Jan Brueghel the Elder (Brussels 1568 - Antwerp 1625), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Roelandt Savery (Courtrai 1576 – Utrecht 1639), artist previously catalogued as manner of Jan Brueghel the Elder (Brussels 1568 - Antwerp 1625), artist
References
Colt Hoare 1818 Sir Richard Colt Hoare, A Description of the House and Gardens at Stourhead...with a Catalogue of the Pictures, Salisbury 1800, Bath 1818, rev. 1822, 84