Painting, Musee des Beaux Arts de Nice, France
Allegory of earth, with goddess Ceres, satyrs, a putti and fruits and vegetables, detail, oil painting on wood, early 17th century, by Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1568-1625, and Hendrick van Balen, 1575-1632, in the Musee des Beaux Arts de Nice, Nice, Provence, France. Brueghel was commissioned 1608-21 by Federico Borromeo to make 4 paintings of the history of the Allegories of the Four Elements. The museum was founded in 1928 as the Palais des Arts Jules Cheret and is housed in a mansion built 1878 for Elizaveta Vasilievna Kochubey. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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