Lot Essay
Underdrawing now visible below the group of three men in the middle distance shows that the painter altered the position of the group during the execution of the picture
The Property of a Continental Family
Pieter Brueghel II (c.1564-1637/8)
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Pieter Brueghel II (c.1564-1637/8)
Peasants merrymaking outside the Swan Inn in a Village Street
signed 'P. BREVGHEL.' (on the barrel) and dated 1630 (on the inn sign)
on panel
22 x 29½in. (56 x 75cm.)
Peasants merrymaking outside the Swan Inn in a Village Street
signed 'P. BREVGHEL.' (on the barrel) and dated 1630 (on the inn sign)
on panel
22 x 29½in. (56 x 75cm.)