J.B. Monteyne (active Antwerp, 1717-1718)

A village landscape with a crowd of peasants and fishermen unloading their catch, a river and cottages beyond

Details

J.B. Monteyne (active Antwerp, 1717-1718)
A village landscape with a crowd of peasants and fishermen unloading their catch, a river and cottages beyond
signed 'JB Monteyne' (lower left)
oil on panel
15½ x 19¾ in. (39.4 x 50.2 cm.)
with inscription 'P. BREUGEL' (on the reverse of the panel)

Provenance

Mrs. Smith, England, by 1866 (according to a label on the reverse)
with Richard Green, London, 1970.

Exhibited

York, Yorkshire Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition, 1866, no. 451 (lent by Mrs. Smith, according to a label on the reverse).

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Lot Essay

Only a small group of works by this rare artist is recorded, often influenced by the earlier Flemish genre works of David Teniers II; for other examples see A. Montballieu, 'Een "Vastenavond" van J.B. Monteyne', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, XII, 1972, pp. 279-284. The present composition is indebted to the river landscapes of Jan Brueghel the Elder (see K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere: Die Gemälde, Lingen, 2008, pp. 229-289), without apparently having any direct prototype in Brueghel's oeuvre.

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