BRUEGHEL, Jan the Younger
(b. 1601, Antwerpen, d. 1678, Antwerpen)

Paradise

c. 1620
Oil on oak, 59 x 42 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Paradise becomes a zoological still-life when seen by Jan Brueghel the Younger, as if it were a pictorial catalogue of the famous ducal collection of wild animals in Brussels.