Lot 43
43
Follower of Jan Brueghel I (Brussels 1568-1625 Antwerp)
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Follower of Jan Brueghel I (Brussels 1568-1625 Antwerp)

A landscape with windmills, travellers and wagons in the foreground and a town beyond

Details
Follower of Jan Brueghel I (Brussels 1568-1625 Antwerp)
A landscape with windmills, travellers and wagons in the foreground and a town beyond
with number '97' (verso)
pen and brown ink, brown and blue wash
10 x 15½ in. (25.2 x 39 cm.)
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

This was one of Brueghel's most popular compositions: a picture dated 1607 is in the Galleria Spada, Rome (K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere: Die Gemälde, Lingen, 2008, no. 152), a version in oils was at Christie's, New York, 26 January 2011, lot 23, and there are drawings in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (Ertz, fig. 178) and in the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (D.J. Johnson, Old Master Drawings from the Museum of Art, R.I.S.D., Providence, Rhode Island, 1983, no. 75). A drawing of the composition attributed to Jan Brueghel I was sold at Christie's, New York, 26 January 2011, lot 268.

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