Studies of Dogs  1616

Both oak panels, with their highly lively and spontaneous animal studies drawn from nature, did not become museum property until 1932. The dating derives from the link to the artist’s “Paradise Landscape” in The Hague (Mauritshuis) and the “Allegory of the Face” in the Prado of 1617, in which Brueghel used similar motifs of monkeys. The crouching cat about to pounce to the...