The Battle between Carnival and Lent

Details

Follower of Pieter Brueghel II
The Battle between Carnival and Lent
oil on panel, circular
10 5/8 in. (26.8 cm.) diameter

Provenance

La Borderie collection; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 19 July 1927, lot 21, as attributed to Pieter Bruegel I.
Anonymous sale; Galerie Fievez, Brussels, 8 April 1930, lot 22, as School of Pieter Brueghel II.
Acquired by John and Johanna Bass, by whom donated to the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, in 1964.

Literature

J. de Coo, Catalogus: Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp, 1966, I, p. 41, as a copy of the panel in Antwerp.
G. Marlier, Pierre Bruegel le Jeune, Brussels, 1969, p. 312, note 12.
K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere (1564-1637/38), Lingen, 1988/2000, I, pp. 249, 256, no. A 198, fig. 186, as a copy of the painting in Antwerp and with incorrect location given.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

The composition of this painting ultimately derives from an oil sketch by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. A very similar painting attributed by Klaus Ertz to Hieronymus Francken the Younger is in the collection of the Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp (loc. cit., pp. 249, 256, no. 197, fig. 187).

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