page_title: Jan van Balen
section_title: Collaborations
hierarchical_section_title: Jan van Balen / Work / Collaborations
context_page_description: Jan van Balen was a Flemish painter known for his Baroque paintings of history and allegorical subjects. He also painted landscapes and genre scenes.
context_section_description: As was the custom in Antwerp at the time, Jan van Balen often collaborated with other painters who were specialists in particular genres.  In particular, his collaborations with Jan Brueghel the Younger have been documented.  Jan Brueghel the Younger was a close collaborator with Rubens and had also worked on compositions with Jan's father Hendrick van Balen. Some of the collaborations between Jan Brueghel the Younger and Jan van Balen appear to have been based on compositions on which Jan Brueghel the Younger or his father Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hendrick van Balen had collaborated before.
  Examples are The sleeping goddess Diana and her nymphs after the hunt, observed by satyrs based on an earlier composition of Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hendrick van Balen and The Feast of Bacchus (Auctioned at Dorotheum on 21 October 2014, Vienna, lot 27) based on an earlier composition of Jan Brueghel the Younger and Hendrick van Balen.  In these collaborations Jan van Balen painted the figures.
caption: The sleeping goddess Diana and her nymphs, with Jan Brueghel the Younger
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