River Landscape, Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1607
Jan Brueghel, portraitJan BrueghelFlemish, 1568–1625

River Landscape

1607 · Painting

May one see it?

Yes, receiving visitors

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Room50B · West Building, Main Floor

On public display.

Checked
In this state since
Source
The museum

Particulars

Accession number
2000.4.1

What it shows

In the catalog

Sources

Meanwhile, in the life of Jan Brueghel

The whole life
  1. 1596–1625 · Workplace

    Antwerp

  2. April 1605

    Second marriage: Catharina van Mariënburg

    Brueghel remarried, taking Catharina van Mariënburg as his wife; they had eight children, among them the future painter Ambrosius Brueghel.

  3. 1606

    Court painter to the Archdukes Albert and Isabella

    Brueghel was appointed court painter to the sovereigns of the Spanish Netherlands and spent periods in Brussels in 1606, 1609, 1610 and 1613. Thanks to the Archduchess he had access to the court greenhouses with their rarest plants, and he studied animals from life in the court menagerie.

  4. 1606–1613 · Workplace

    Brussels

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