Attributed to Frans Francken II (Antwerp, 1581 - 1642) 'Mythological scenes' Pair of oil paintings on copper. 55,5 x 42,5 x 5 cm each.   Frans Francken II was a celebrated painter of mythological scenes, religious and allegorical compositions, as well as an engraver.  As the Prado states, the painter's production can be divided into four stages. The first stage, in which his ‘works denote his initial link with the painting and style of the 16th century, with elevated viewpoints and [...] local colours’; a second, with an increasingly light-coloured palette, in which he began to consolidate himself with an “immense and easily recognisable pictorial corpus”; a third, his period of greatest plenitude, in which “typical male figures wearing turbans or Phrygian caps begin to appear”, a moment in which “the general luminosity reaches [...] its zenith, determining the chromatic scheme of the artist's style”; and a final one, from 1630, when he began to produce “compositions in which local colour evolved towards general tones”, influenced by Rubens and other Dutch painters of his day. Other general characteristics of his work, which continued throughout his career, ‘are his figures with large black eyes, achieved through touches of charcoal black’ and the inclusion, from 1610 (in his second phase), of stereotypical women in his paintings. His work can be found in the Rijksmuseum, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, the Louvre and, as well as in many other museums, the Prado, where there are up to 20 paintings by this artist, three of which are collaborations.   Bibliographical references: - Museo del Prado (s.f.). 'Francken II, Frans'. https://www.museodelprado.es/recurso/francken-ii-frans/094e0a02-6efd-461e-9b9a-9d58d15d71cf