 Genoels worked for various leading gentlemen of Paris including François Michel Le Tellier and Louis, Grand Condé (for his Château de Chantilly), before returning to Flanders in 1669.Genoels returned in 1669 to Antwerp where he was registered in the local Guild of St Luke 1672.He painted in 1672–73 a painting depicting for the painters' room of the Antwerp in order to be exempted from all official duties at the Guild for 25 years.