Completed 16th June 2024

  

6000 Pieces

Allegory of Sight and Smell (detail), ca. 1620 AD

Oil on canvas, 264 x 176 cm

Jan Brueghel the Younger

Antwerp (Belgium), 1601 - Antwerp (Belgium), 1678

Hendrick van Balen

 Antwerp, 1575, 1632

Frans Francken II

Antwerp, 1581 - Antwerp, 1642

Sebastian Vrancx

Amberes, 1573 - Amberes, 1647

Jan Brueghel the Younger was a Flemish painter. He was the son of the eminent Flemish Renaissance painter Jan Bruegel the Elder. A close friend and frequent collaborator with Peter Paul Rubens, the two artists were the leading Flemish painters in the first three decades of the 17th century. 

 The artist was nicknamed "Velvet" Brueghel, "Flower" Brueghel, and "Paradise" Brueghel. The first is believed to have been given him because of his mastery in the rendering of fabrics.

Jan Brueghel's works reflect the contemporary interest in the classification and ordering of all of the natural world. Brueghel produced various sets of allegorical paintings, in particular on the themes of the Five senses and the Four Elements. These paintings were often collaborations with other painters .... like Five senses on which Brueghel and Rubens collaborated and which are now in the Prado Museum in Madrid LINK 

The jigsaw puzzle was manufactured by Clementoni, Italy, 

and has been edited in the so-called Museum Collection.