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JAN BREUGHEL THE ELDER (BRUSSELS 1568-1625 ANTWERP)
Wooded landscape with travellers
dated and signed '.1611.BRVEGHEL' (lower right)
oil on copper, with the plate maker's mark of Pieter Staas
6 3/8 x 9 in. (16.2 x 22.8 cm.)
Provenance
Private collection, England.
with Edward Speelman, London, 1979.
Private collection, Munich.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 10 July 1998, lot 12, when acquired.
Literature
G. van Gehren, 'Jan Brueghel der Ältere', Weltkunst, XLIX, 14, 1979, p. 1760.
K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere, die Gemälde, mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Cologne, 1979, pp. 87, 89-90, 153 and 596, no. 233, figs. 170 (colour), 77, 83 and 84 (details).
K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere, Cologne, 1981, p. 108, fig. 28.
M. Padrón, El siglo de Rubens en el Museo del Prado: Catálogo Razonado de Pintura Flamenca del Siglo XVII, Barcelona, 1995, I, p. 202, under no. 1433, illustrated.
Weltkunst, LXVIII, 6, June 1998, p. 1287, illustrated.
K. Ertz and C. Nitze-Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere, die Gemälde, mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Lingen, 2008, I, p. 188-190, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Brod Gallery, Jan Brueghel the Elder, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, 21 June-20 July 1979, no. 27 (with entry by K. Ertz).
Cologne, Josef Haubrich Kunsthalle, Wahre Wunder, Sammler und Sammlungen im Rheinland, 5 November 2000-1 February 2001, no. C 11.
Special Notice
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