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Jan Bruegel the Elder

[Flemish Baroque Era Painter, 1568-1625]

• Also known as:  Jan 'Velvet' Brueghel
Brueghel de Velours
• Relationships: Son of Pieter Bruegel.
Father of Jan Bruegel II.
Brother of Pieter Bruegel II.
Uncle of Jan van Kessel.
Father-in-law of David Teniers the Younger.
Grandson of Pieter Coecke van Aelst.
Bruegel's students included Abraham Govaerts and Daniel Seghers.
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Madonna in a Garland of Flowers (with Peter Paul Rubens), ca.1616

Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Large Fish Market, 1603
Harbour Scene with Christ Preaching, 1598

Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Holy Family (with Pieter van Avont), ca.1620

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3 works by Jan Bruegel online

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
7 works by Jan Bruegel the Elder

Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK

Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Winter Landscape, 1611
Wooden Landscape (The Rest on the Flight into Egypt), 1607
The Adoration of the Magi, 1598-1600
Edge of the Forest (The Flight into Egypt), 1610

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J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
3 works online by Bruegel

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Flowers in a Wooden Vessel, ca.1606-07

Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German)  

Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Landscape with Young Tobias, 1598 (Zoom)

Jan Bruegel the Elder in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)

Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
The garden of Eden with the fall of man

Jan Bruegel the Elder at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
3 works by Jan Bruegel online

Jan Bruegel the Elder at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Landscape with Travelers on a Woodland Road, ca.1605-10

Jan Bruegel the Elder at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Castle Merxem, near Antwerp, pen and ink drawing, 1610

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
Landscape with Peasants

Jan Bruegel the Elder at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2 works by Jan Bruegel the Elder

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa  
Adam and Eve in Paradise
Bouquet of Flowers in a Faience Vase


Jan Bruegel the Elder at the National Gallery, London, UK
3 paintings online

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Harbor Scene with St. Paul's Departure from Caesarea, 1596

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Jan Bruegel the Elder at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Still Life with Flowers in a Glass
Latona and the Lycian Peasants
, ca.1605

Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)  
8 works by Jan Bruegel online

The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, 1615

Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK

Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Diana and Callisto, ca.1605-08

Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, England
Pluto and Persephone, ca.1610

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
4 works by or related to the artist

Crocker Art Museum, California
River Scene

Flemish Art Collection Database (in Dutch)  

Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome (in Italian)  
Paradiso terrestre

Glasgow Museums, Scotland   NEW!
Nature and Her Followers

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Holy Family with a Garland of Flowers, ca.1620

Kunsthaus Zurich

Jan Bruegel the Elder in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France
Bucherons en Foret

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)  

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)  

Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon, France (in French)  
Le Feu

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK

National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish)  
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National Museum Kassel, Germany (in German)  
Pan and Syrinx, ca.1617 (with Peter Paul Rubens)

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Wooded Landscape with Abraham and Isaac, 1599

Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan (in Italian)  
10 paintings online

Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Austria
Village-Landscape with Figures and Cows

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  
Several works by or close to Jan Bruegel I

Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Extensive Landscape With Travellers on a Country Road, ca.1608-10

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
The Archdukes Albert and Isabella Visiting a Collector's Cabinet

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee, 1596
The Garden of Eden, ca.1610-12

Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
The Garden of Eden; in the background The Temptation

Virtual Uffizi

 
Commercial Galleries:
Fred R. Kline Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Orpheus Playing to the Animals, 1605

 
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Paradise

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

CGFA  

Insecula

Web Gallery of Art  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)  

Artyzm

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

Olga's Gallery

The Athenaeum  
52 works online by Bruegel

University of Leipzig, Germany  
2 paintings by Jan Bruegel

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Other Web Sites:
Beloit College Department of Classics
A Fantastic Cave Landscape with Odysseus and Calypso, ca.1600

The BBC
Flowers in a Stoneware Vase

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jan Bruegel the Elder
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

  
 
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Jan Bruegel: Orpheus Playing to Pluto and Persephone in the Underworld
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Jan Bruegel: Christ and Mary Magdalene
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Still Life of Flowers
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Animals Entering Noah's Ark
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