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Hendrick van Balen the Elder

13 works

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Painting of angels making music among clouds, with a violin, a flute, and an open score in warm reds and golds.

Concert of Angels

Allegorical painting of classical figures, cherubs, flower garlands and potted plants in a garden setting with red drapery.

Allegory of the Virtuous Life

1625

Brown-toned drawing of nude and winged figures falling from a radiant heaven into a writhing mass of damned bodies below.

La Chute des Réprouvés heaven and hell

1632

Painting of the Israelites in the desert: a woman nursing a baby, a bearded man giving drink to a child, and a crowd with ani

The Israelites in the Desert

Painting of a halo-crowned preacher pointing upward in a wooded scene, surrounded by a listening crowd and children with flow

John the Baptist preaching

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Christ Child, kneeling king, attendants, soldiers, and flying putti

Adoration of the Magi

1500

Bacchus offers grapes and wine to Diana in a woodland scene with putti, satyrs, a hound and fruit.

Bacchus and Diana

1632

Nude women bathing in a forest stream as a hunter in red robes approaches through the trees, in an oil painting.

Diana and Actaeon

1621

Seated woman with two putti among roses and tulips, with a peacock in a formal garden leading to a distant mansion.

Frühling

Painting of a seated woman with a cornucopia, putti, fruit, monkeys, and harvesters working in a summer landscape.

Sommer

Painting of a sea-god wedding procession with nereids, tritons and cupids approaching a banquet set in a seaside grotto.

Les noces de Thétis et Pêlée

1660

Painting of a bacchanal in a dark woodland with nude putti, satyrs raising wine, a fruit-laden woman and a flying cherub.

The feast of Bacchus

Painting of Diana's nymphs returning from the hunt, with bathers in a forest pond and dead deer, birds and fish in the foregr

Baño de Ninfas (Las ninfas de Diana regresando de la pesca)

1585

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