An extensive mountainous river landscape with horsemen and figures returning from the falconry, villages in the valley beyond

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After Jan Brueghel I
An extensive mountainous river landscape with horsemen and figures returning from the falconry, villages in the valley beyond
with initials 'G.S.' (lower right)
oil on copper
50.1 x 60.1 cm.

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Lot Essay

The prototype probably dates from 1594-5 and is last recorded in a private collection in Germany (see K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568-1625): Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Cologne, 1979, p. 558, no. 8a, fig. 92b).

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