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A Basket of Flowers
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A Basket of Flowers

Medium

Oil on wood

Dimensions

18 1/2 x 26 7/8 in. (47 x 68.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967

Classification

Paintings

Department

European Paintings

Rights

Public Domain

About Jan Brueghel the Younger

1601–1678Habsburg Netherlands

Painter, son of Jan Breughe the elder. He probably trained in the studio of his father and then went to Milan to meet his father’s patron, Cardinal Federico Borromeo. In the spring of 1624 Jan the younger travelled to Palermo, Sicily, with his childhood friend Anthony van Dyck. After the sudden death of his father in a cholera epidemic in Antwerp, Jan returned to the Netherlands, and by early August 1625 he was back in Antwerp, where he took over his father’s studio.