Lot Essay
Other versions of the present picture show a woman supporting a drunken man, however x-ray photography does not reveal such a motif.
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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Manner of Pieter Brueghel II
A Village in Winter with a Peasant Woman and Child by a frozen Pond and Men brawling outside a Tavern
Details
Manner of Pieter Brueghel II
A Village in Winter with a Peasant Woman and Child by a frozen Pond and Men brawling outside a Tavern
with signature 'P. Brueghel'
oil on panel
9½ x 13 7/8in. (24.2 x 35.2cm.)
A Village in Winter with a Peasant Woman and Child by a frozen Pond and Men brawling outside a Tavern
with signature 'P. Brueghel'
oil on panel
9½ x 13 7/8in. (24.2 x 35.2cm.)
Provenance
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1962
Literature
G. Marlier, Pierre Brueghel le Jeune, Brussels, p. 419, fig. 264, no. 4, as by Pieter Brueghel the Younger.
Exhibited
Laren, Singer Museum, Modernen van Toen, 1570-1630, 1963, no. 54.