Jan BrueghelFlemish, 1568–1625Smell
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Smell” 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
- P001396
In the catalog
Sources
- Wikidata
- Image: Museo del Prado — Jan Brueghel the Elder / Peter Paul Rubens · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
In the life of Jan Brueghel
The whole life1596–1625 · Workplace
Antwerp
27 August 1615
The city presents four of his paintings to the Archdukes
Brueghel received many official commissions from the Antwerp magistrate; on this day the city fathers presented four of his paintings to the Archdukes Albert and Isabella.
1617
Son born: Ambrosius Brueghel
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.
9 March 1619
Buys a third house, 'Den Bock'
Brueghel bought a third house, 'Den Bock' (The Billy Goat), on the Arenbergstraat in Antwerp.
1619/1620
Daughter born: Anna Brueghel
