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The Four Elements: Fire

Jan Brueghel the Younger (Antwerp 1601 - Antwerp 1678)

Category

Art / Oil paintings

Date

circa 1625 - 1632

Materials

Oil on copper

Measurements

476 x 825 mm (18 3/4 x 32 1/2 in)

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Collection

Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset

NT 1257088

Caption

Fire, represented by artificial metallic works of Man (rather than nature) shows Venus arming Aeneas, her mortal son. Vulcan, her heavenly, cuckolded husband, is present at his forge but almost invisible. A unique version of the many repeated sets of the Four Elements from the Brueghel Antwerp studio from the early 17th century.

Summary

Oil painting on copper, The Four Elements: Fire by Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601-1678) and Hendrick van Balen the elder (1575-1632), circa 1625/32. Mars and Venus, at the forge of Vulcan, the latter's cuckolded husband, to the left. Aeneas was the mortal son of Venus.

Provenance

Acquired after 1905, probably by Henrietta Jenny Fraser, Mrs. Walter Ralph Bankes (1871 - 1953); bequeathed by her son, Ralph Bankes (1902 – 1981)

Credit line

Kingston Lacy, The Bankes Collection (National Trust)

Marks and inscriptions

FIRE (painted in black on fixed gilt label, bottom right-hand side)

Makers and roles

Jan Brueghel the Younger (Antwerp 1601 - Antwerp 1678) , artist Hendrik van Balen the Elder (Antwerp 1575 - Antwerp 1632), artist

Exhibition history

In Trust for the Nation, National Gallery, London, 1995 - 1996, no.60b

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