Jan Brueghel the Elder & Peter Paul Rubens - The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man, 1615,

Mauritshuis

Although Brueghel was responsible for the composition, Rubens started the painting. Very sketchily, in thin paint, he painted Adam and Eve, the

tree, the horse and the serpent. Then Brueghel took on the plants and animals, which he painted with encyclopaedic precision in finishing paint.