Collaborations Pieter Thijs

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thijs collaborated flower painters on so-called ‘garland paintings’. garland paintings type of still life invented in antwerp , earliest practitioner jan brueghel elder. these paintings typically show flower garland around devotional image or portrait. garland paintings collaborations between still life , figure painter. example composition leopold of austria in flower garland (auctioned @ sotheby s, london on 5 december 2006, lot nr 412) in portrait of archduke leopold wilhelm of austria painted thijs , flower garland unknown hand.

in 1650s, pieter thijs worked thomas willeboirts bosschaert, jan brueghel younger , adriaen van utrecht on cartoons 2 series of tapestries archduke leopold wilhelm, titles day , night , months. cartoons painted after designs jan van den hoecke , woven brussels tapestry workshops. of cartoons such diana, allegory of night in collection of kunsthistorisches museum.