An extensive Landscape with Travellers halted on a Track by a wooded Knoll

Details

Jan Brueghel I (1568-1625)
An extensive Landscape with Travellers halted on a Track by a wooded Knoll
signed and dated 'BRVEGHEL·1606.' (lower left)
oil on copper
11 x 16 5/8in. (27.9 x 42.4cm.)
The reverse of the copper panel is stamped with the maker's mark of Peeter Stas and the coat-of-arms of the city of Antwerp

Provenance

Phillips, Sussex, 1822 (on an old label on the reverse).
John Vivian, 4th Baron Swansea, D.L.; Sotheby's, 6 July 1966, lot 117 (£12,800 to Leggatt).

Literature

K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel Der Ältere, Cologne, 1979, p. 580, no. 136.

Lot Essay

Ertz, loc. cit. (who has not seen this picture in the original) correctly identifies it as being that sold at Sotheby's in 1966, but seems incorrect in stating that it is a variant of a picture by Brueghel in Vaduz (op. cit., p. 574, no. 105), as the latter has only a very loose compositional relationship to the present picture.

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