A peasant paying court to a woman, with a bagpipe player in a village

Details

Pieter Brueghel II (Brussels 1564/5-1637/8 Antwerp)
A peasant paying court to a woman, with a bagpipe player in a village
signed 'P.BREVGEL' (lower left)
oil on panel
11 x 15¾ in. (28 x 40 cm.)
stamped on the reverse with the panel maker's mark of a clover leaf

Provenance

Lainé collection, Léon, before 1954.
Anon. Sale, Galerie Giroux, Brussels, 2 April 1954, lot 565, pl. XV.
Anon. Sale, Galerie Trussart, Brussels, 20 May 1957, pl. XII.

Literature

P. Marlier, Pierre Brueghel le Jeune, Brussels, 1969, p. 424, no. 94, 'Le Joueur de Cornemuse'.
K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jungëre, Lingen, 2000, I, pp. 176-7, pl. 150; II, pp. 822-3, no. 1107.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

As pointed out by Ertz (loc. cit.), the emphasis given to the bagpipe player, shown detached in the centre foreground, serves to underline the amorous undercurrent of the meeting taking place at the cottage door.

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