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The painting, executed in collaboration with Hendrick van Balen, depicts the Holy Family within a garland of fruit, flowers and vegetables held by angels. This type of devotional painting, in which angels encircle the Holy Family with bountiful garlands of fruit and flowers, enjoyed enormous popularity in the southern Netherlands in the second quarter of the seventeenth century.
The present panel is one of the versions that are known to us which both Jan Brueghels, father and son, produced in collaboration with other artists such as Hendrick van Balen, Pieter van Avont and even Rubens himself.
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