A group of peasants in a cart by a river

Details

After Jan Brueghel I
A group of peasants in a cart by a river
black chalk, pen and grey ink, grey and blue wash, pen and grey ink framing lines
125 x 195 mm.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 21 March 1977, lot 119 (as Adriaen van Stalbemt).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

These figure groups are found in a painting by Breughel in the Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Schleissheim. (K. Ertz, Jan
Brueghel der Ältere (1568-1625) Die Gemälde mit kritischem
Oeuvrekatalog, Cologne, 1979, no.290. fig. 210).

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