Jan Brueghel I (1568-1625)

Travellers on a country road, a village beyond

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Jan Brueghel I (1568-1625)
Travellers on a country road, a village beyond
oil on copper
7 x 9.3 cm
the support is stamped with a copperplate maker's mark
Exhibited
Laren (N.H.), Singer Memorial Foundation, Modernen van Toen 1570-1630, 15 June-1 September 1963, n.49
Sale room notice
Please note that an attribution to Jan Brueghel II (1601-1678) has also been suggested

Lot Essay

To be dated to circa 1607-1610 and to be compared with the landscape, signed and dated 1607 in the Galleria Spada, Rome, inv. n.138 and with the signed landscape with travellers, offered at Binoche et Godeau, Paris, 19 November 1993, lot 80, as Jan Breughel II (See K. Ertz, Pieter Breughel der Jüngere-Jan Brueghel der Ältere, etc., exhibition catalogue, Villa Hügel, Essen, 1997, pp.321-326, n.s64 and 66, with ills).

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