Travellers on a path, an extensive landscape beyond

Details

Circle of Jan Brueghel I (Brussels 1568-1625 Antwerp)
Travellers on a path, an extensive landscape beyond
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and blue wash, pen and brown ink framing lines, watermark armorial above Star
190 x 306 mm.

Provenance

John Malcolm of Poltalloch, to his son-in-law
The Hon. A.E. Gathorne-Hardy, by descent to
Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, by descent to
The Hon. Robert Gathorne-Hardy; Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 3 May 1976, lot 12 (as Follower of Jan Breughel).

Literature

Descriptive catalogue of drawings by the old masters, in the possession of the Hon. A.E. Gathorne-Hardy, London, 1902, no. 66 (as Breughel the Elder).

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Lot Essay

The covered wagon in the centre of this composition is found in a painting by Breughel in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. (K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568-1625) Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Cologne, 1979, no.112, fig. 14).

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