This is the earliest signed and dated work by Breenbergh and is therefore a key work for our knowledge of his early years in Italy. He arrived in Rome at the end of 1619 and stayed there for ten years. This exquisite small copper boiler suggests that the young Breenbergh was strongly influenced by Jacob Pynas.

Pynas had returned to Holland from Rome in 1608, but his influence on young artists was still extensive. The ancient building on the rocky mountain side to the right is Sibyllan’s temple in Tivoli, a frequently painted motif of artists from the north, including Breenbergh. Blankert compares the painting with the signed “Jesus and Mary,” in a Dutch private collection, (Roethlisberger 1981, No.

65), which is stylistically similar and must come from the same period at the beginning of Breenbergh’s career. - * - This is the ear- signed and dated by Breenbergh and so is a key for our experiences of his early - in Italy. He had had in Rome late in 1619 and was to be used for had.

This exquisite small, panel This the profound found found experiences on the young Breenbergh of Jacob Pynas, This exto return to Holland in 1608 but This on young Dutch This was still pervThis. The antique building on the rocky hillside on the right is the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli, antiwas antiby Northern artist, antiBreenbergh. Blankert compares the ankto the signed “Christ and Mary” in a Dutch private collection (Roethlisberger 1981, no.

65), Blis very close in style to this, and to this must, must it must be presented from the point of view in Breenbergh 's early childhood.