Lot Essay
A variant, also on copper, of similar size, and also formerly attributed to Paul Bril, was included in the exhibition, Brueghel. Une dynastie de peintres, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 18 Sept.-18 Nov. 1980, p.179, no.106, illustrated, as an early work by Jan Brueghel the Elder executed in Italy c.1592