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The story of Pan and Syrinx - a satyr-like god pursuing a beautiful nymph - captured Rubens's imagination, and over the course of his career he returned to the theme as a subject for paintings and drawings.
The present version is a joint work by Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Younger for which Brueghel painted the landscape and Rubens the figures. The figures were painted first and the landscape added later, presumably based on a preliminary design by Jan Brueghel the Elder.
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