manuel cohen

Painting, Musee des Beaux Arts de Nice, France

Allegory of water, with goddess Amphitrite with putti and lake animals, 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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Allegory of water, with goddess Amphitrite with putti and lake animals, 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