Centuries Archive
This painting is the companion piece of Roelandt Savery’s Bouquet of Flowers.
The view is probably a capriccio of various of the abbeys set among ponds in the rolling woodland to the south and east of Brussels.
Denis van Alsloot was a Flemish painter who specialized in pageant and procession scenes.
Theodoor Aenvanck’s Fruit, like many other floral compositions in 17th-century painting, also represents the process of decay and destruction.




















