Paul de Vos (1591/1592, or 1595 in Hulst – 30 June 1678 in Antwerp) was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in still lifes and animal and hunting scenes. He was a regular collaborator of leading Antwerp painters such as Anthony van Dyck and Peter Paul Rubens. De Vos was born in Hulst near Antwerp, now in the Dutch province of Zeeland. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_de_Vos) "Paul de Vos painted several pictures depicting the theme of the Garden of Eden.... It seems likely that de Vos worked on the majority of these at about the same time and then passed them on to his brother-in-law, Jan Wildens, for the completion of the landscape backgrounds. In style, they are all extremely close to de Vos' work for the Spanish court in the Torre de la Parada, dating from circa 1636 (see S. Alpers Corpus Rubenianum, The Decoration of the Torre De La Parada, 1971, pp. 119-21) and thus may date from the same period. Arnout Balis, who offered his opinions at the time of the 1991 sale (see Provenance), then pointed out that the lion which recurs in all the paintings in this group is inspired by Rubens’ rendering of the same animal in his 1624 The Meeting of Marie de' Medici and Henry IV at Lyons for the Medici cycle (Musée du Louvre), thus providing a terminus post quem for the present picture. Moreover, the extremely elegant white horse on the left of the present picture, with its long mane in the Spanish fashion, pink ribbons and elaborate saddle of a kind often found in Spanish equestrian portraits, is a direct quotation from the Equestrian portrait of Philip IV of circa 1630 in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (inv. 762). Balis believes that work to be a collaborative venture by Cornelis de Vos (Philip IV) and Paul de Vos (the horse). We are grateful to Fred Meijer of the RKD for endorsing the attribution to de Vos and Wildens, based on photographs." (http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/master-paintings-evening-sale-n09460/lot.30.html) undefined

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