Animals in the Baroque Period:The Compulsion for Collection

Jan Brueghel the Elder

1568-1625

Entry of the Animals into Noah’s Ark, 1613

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, 1610s

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with God, c. 1610s

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, 1615

The Earthly Paradise and the Fall of Adam and Eve (with Peter Paul Rubens), 1610-15

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, c. 1615

Earthly Paradise, c. 1615

Earthly Paradise, c. 1615

Jacob Hoefnagel

1575-c. 1630

Study, 1592

Orpheus Charming the Animals

Roelandt Savery

1576-1639

Paradise, 1618

Earthly Paradise

The Garden of Eden

Orpheus Attacked by Bacchantes, 1620

Landscape with Wild Animals, 1622

Landscape with Birds, 1622

Landscape with Birds

Paradise, 1626

Orpheus Charming the Animals, 1626

Landscape with Wild Animals, c. 1629

Forest Landscape with Animals

Landscape with Animals

Paul de Vos

c. 1592-1678

Paradise

The Garden of Eden (with Jan Wildens)

Noah’s Ark

Jan Brueghel the Younger

1601-1678

Paradise

Jan van Kessel the Elder

1626-1679

Birds on a Riverbank, 1655

Birds

The Mockery of the Owl

Concert of the Birds, 1660

The Animals, 1660

Insects on a Stone Slab, 1660s

Allegory of Air, 1661

Harbor Scene with Fish, 1660

The Day’s Catch, 1661

Landscape with Cock and Turkey Squabbling and Other Fowl, 1663

The Continent of Africa, 1666

The Continent of Africa, 1672

Melchior de Hondecoeter

c. 1636-1695

Pelican and Other Birds Near a Pool, 1680

Bird Concert, 1682

Bird Concert

Peacocks, 1683

The Menagerie, c. 1690

Other Artists

41 Insects, Moths, and ButterfliesWenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Punishment of a HunterPaulus Potter, c. 1647

Branch of a Guava TreeMaria Sybilla Merian, c. 1705