ATTRIBUÉ À JAN VAN KESSEL DIT LE JEUNE (Anvers,... Lot n° 6

THE LOWER COUR Painting on copper parquet 16 ,5 x 22 cm This painting represents a set of gallinacs whose center of attention is a necklace decorated with a precious stone set with a frame flanked by cultured pearls. This genre scene could be interpreted as a moral criticism of lucre. Jan II van Kessel was a pupil of his father Jan I (1626-1679) whose uncle was the famous Brueghel de Velours (1568-1625). Jan the Younger went to Madrid in 1680 where he painted a portrait of Queen Marie-Louise, wife of Charles II. Appointed painter to the Spanish court in 1686, he also painted the portrait of the monarch's second wife, Princess Marie-Anne de Palatinat .