The Collector of Tithes

Details

Pieter Brueghel II (Brussels 1564/5-1637/8 Antwerp)
The Collector of Tithes
oil on panel, unframed
28½ x 475/8 in. (72.5 x 121 cm.)
the support is stamped with the mark of the panel maker Guilliam Gabron (active 1609-1662).

Provenance

Private collection, Lombardy, whence acquired by the present owner in circa 1970.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This unpublished panel relates to a large number of versions of the composition produced by Pieter Breughel II and his studio between circa 1615 and 1630. It appears to belong with those executed entirely by the hand of the master thus joining a group of twenty-three versions considered by Klaus Ertz to be autograph (see K. Ertz, catalogue of the exhibition, Pieter Brueghel le Jeune - Jan Breughel l'Ancien, Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 1998, pp. 390-393).

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