![]() ![]() Jan Brueghel the Elder was the second son of the famous Pieter Bruegel the Elder, also known as ‘Peasant Bruegel’. He also painted the horse, the serpent, and the tree. Rubens’s share in the work is far greater than the inscription suggests. The somewhat wider brushstrokes in which Adam and Eve are executed can be clearly distinguished from the finer strokes in the details of the plants and animals, such as the tortoise’s shell and the leopard’s coat. This indicates that Peter Paul Rubens painted the figures and Jan Brueghel produced the work as a whole. They both signed the work: ‘PETRI PAVLI RVBENS FIGR’ is inscribed on the left and ‘IBRUEGHEL FEC.’ on the right. ![]() ![]() In this case Rubens painted the two nudes while Brueghel executed the landscape and the animals. This spectacular painting was produced jointly by two specialists, which was not an unusual phenomenon in the seventeenth century. ![]()
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