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Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld
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Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld

Medium

Oil on copper

Dimensions

10 1/2 x 14 1/8 in. (26.7 x 35.9 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Erna S. Blade, in memory of her uncle, Sigmund Herrmann, 1991

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.