拍品專文
The composition derives from Pieter Brueghel the Elder's painting of the same subject, dated 1568, in the Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples. A lithograph (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue David Teniers, Jan Brueghel y Los Gabinetes de Pinturas, Museo del Prado, 1992, p. 128, fig. 78b), probably after a lost painting by Brueghel, is closer to the present painting, and was copied by Jan Brueghel and Vrancx.
There are various other versions by Vrancx; one in a private collection, Madrid (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, op. cit., p. 126, no. 10) and another with Johnny van Haeften, 1987.
There are various other versions by Vrancx; one in a private collection, Madrid (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, op. cit., p. 126, no. 10) and another with Johnny van Haeften, 1987.