Pieter Brueghel II (Brussels 1564/5-1637/8 Antwerp)
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Pieter Brueghel II (Brussels 1564/5-1637/8 Antwerp)

A peasant paying court to a woman, with a bagpipe player in a village

细节
Pieter Brueghel II (Brussels 1564/5-1637/8 Antwerp)
A peasant paying court to a woman, with a bagpipe player in a village
signed 'P.BREVGEL' (lower left)
oil on panel
11 x 15¾ in. (28 x 40 cm.)
stamped on the reverse with the panel maker's mark of a clover leaf
来源
Lainé collection, Léon, before 1954.
Anon. Sale, Galerie Giroux, Brussels, 2 April 1954, lot 565, pl. XV.
Anon. Sale, Galerie Trussart, Brussels, 20 May 1957, pl. XII.
出版
P. Marlier, Pierre Brueghel le Jeune, Brussels, 1969, p. 424, no. 94, 'Le Joueur de Cornemuse'.
K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jungëre, Lingen, 2000, I, pp. 176-7, pl. 150; II, pp. 822-3, no. 1107.
注意事项
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品专文

As pointed out by Ertz (loc. cit.), the emphasis given to the bagpipe player, shown detached in the centre foreground, serves to underline the amorous undercurrent of the meeting taking place at the cottage door.