Pieter van Avont

Pieter van Avont or Peeter van Avont (1600–1652)

• Was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and printmaker.
• He was known for his religious scenes and cabinet paintings often including nude children and putti.
• Van Avont was a frequent collaborator with many leading painters in Antwerp.
• Peeter van den Cruys was a pupil of van Avont in 1625-'26.
• Frans Wouters was apprenticed to Pieter van Avont in 1629 but Wouters broke his contract to move to the workshop of Rubens in 1634.
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Wenceslaus Hollar And Peeter Van Avont, The Young Wine God Bacchus on a Leopard, led by a Satyr, 1647

Original, Taylers Museum, Haarlem. Visited in 2018.

Wenceslaus Hollar And Peeter Van Avont, Horn-playing Young Satyrs, 1647

Original, Taylers Museum, Haarlem. Visited in 2018.

Pieter Van Avont and Jan Brueghel the Elder, The holy family, c. 1620-23

Original, The Pinakotheken, Munich. Visited in 2019.

Pieter Van Avont and Jan Brueghel the Elder, The holy family, c. 1620-23

Pieter Van Avont, Holy Family Departing for Egypt, ca. 1625

Original, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. Visited in 2021.

Pieter Van Avont, Holy Family Departing for Egypt, ca. 1625

Pieter van Avont, Izaak van Oosten, Attributed to Jan van Kessel the Elder, The Four Elements An Allegory of Air and Fire, between circa 1641 and circa 1652

Original, Christie`s, New York. Visited in 2023.

Pieter van Avont, Izaak van Oosten, Attributed to Jan van Kessel the Elder, The Four Elements An Allegory of Air and Fire, between circa 1641 and circa 1652

Pieter van Avont, Izaak van Oosten, Attributed to Jan van Kessel the Elder, The Four Elements; An Allegory of Earth and Water, between circa 1641 and circa 1652

Original, Christie`s, New York. Visited in 2023.