The Wood Cutters

細節

Pieter Brueghel II (Brussels 1564/5-1637/38 Antwerp)
The Wood Cutters
oil on panel, circular
6½ x 6½ in. (16.5 x 16.5 cm.)

來源

Dierckx collection, Turnhout, since the 19th century, and by descent to the present owner.

出版

G. Marlier, Pierre Brueghel le Jeune, Brussels, 1969, p. 166, no. 27e.
K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere, Lingen, 2000, I, p. 212, no. F135.

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

拍場告示

We are grateful to Dr. Klaus Ertz for confirming the attribution after inspection of the original.

拍品專文

For a discussion of the broader theme of the Netherlandish proverbs, and these roundel depictions of them, in Brueghel's oeuvre, see the note to lot 61. As discussed by Klaus Ertz in his catalogue rasionné of the artist's work (op. cit, pp. 151-6), the underlying meaning of the present composition remains as-yet unknown, but is likely to derive from a lost composition of the artist's father, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Ertz listed seven fully accepted works in his catalogue, and two further (including the present picture) that he records following Marlier's inclusion of them in his catalogue, but on which, not having seen them himself, he does not comment. The reappearance of this picture on the market is therefore the first time for over forty years that it has been seen in public and that its autograph status can thus be confirmed.