Jan BrueghelFlemish, 1568–1625A Farm
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “A Farm” now? Collection: Museo del Prado, Madrid. Unknown.
Madrid, Spain
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- P001590
In the catalog
Sources
- Wikidata
- Image: Museo del Prado — Jan Brueghel the Elder / Joos de Momper the Younger · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
In the life of Jan Brueghel
The whole life1596–1625 · Workplace
Antwerp
1618
Leads the city's commission for the Archdukes
Brueghel was one of twelve leading painters commissioned by the Antwerp magistrate to produce a series of paintings for the Archdukes; he coordinated the cycle Allegory of the Five Senses with Rubens, Frans Snyders, Frans Francken the Younger, Joos de Momper, Hendrick van Balen and Sebastiaen Vrancx. The paintings were destroyed in a fire in 1713.
1619/1620
Daughter born: Anna Brueghel
6 August 1623
The Archduchess and Borromeo as godparents
Brueghel's daughter Clara Eugenia was baptised; her godparents were Archduchess Isabella and Cardinal Federico Borromeo.
13 January 1625
Dies of cholera along with three of his children
Brueghel died in Antwerp aged 57 of cholera; the same epidemic also took three of his children, Pieter, Elisabeth and Maria. Other accounts say he died of complications from a gastrointestinal upset.
13 January 1625
Died
