Beginning with his earliest works he drew on a wide variety of figurative styles from the Roman classicist current t
o Michelangelo and from the late Venetian sixteenth century to Caravaggio, developing a dense manner of painting with bright and violently clashing colors, heavy drawing, and strong contrasts of light and shade. He handles his subjects in a sensual manne
r, placing sacred and mythological themes in an earthly and bourgeois dimension.\par
His paintings include the \i Peasant with Satyr\i0 (Munich, Alte Pinakothek), \i The King Drinks\i0 , \i Pan and Syrinx\i0 (both in Brussels, MusΘes Royaux des Beaux-
Arts), and the \i Fertility of the Earth\i0 (1630, Brussels, MusΘes Royaux des Beaux-Arts), considered his masterpiece.