Jan BrueghelFlemish, 1568–1625Path in a Forest
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Path in a Forest” 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
- P001427
In the catalog
Sources
- Wikidata
- Image: Museo del Prado — Jan Brueghel the Elder · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
In the life of Jan Brueghel
The whole life1568
Born
1578
His mother dies; a miniaturist grandmother raises the children
After their mother's death, Jan, his brother Pieter and his sister Marie are believed to have lived with their widowed grandmother, the miniaturist Mayken Verhulst. According to Karel van Mander, she was her grandsons' first teacher, instructing them in drawing and watercolour miniatures.
1578 · Workplace
Antwerp
1589
To Italy by way of Cologne and Frankenthal
Setting off to complete his training in Italy, as was customary for Flemish painters, Jan first went to Cologne, where his sister Marie lived with her family, and then to Frankenthal, a centre where Flemish landscape painters were active; from there, probably by way of Venice, he reached Naples.
1589–1596
Travel: Italy
1592–1594
Meets Cardinal Federico Borromeo
In Rome Brueghel enjoyed the protection of Cardinal Ascanio Colonna and met Cardinal Federico Borromeo, a leading figure of the Counter-Reformation and an avid collector, who became his lifelong friend and patron. The painter took up residence in Borromeo's Palazzo Vercelli.
