Two women going to market, other figures with carts and pigs on a road in an extensive landscape

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Attributed to David Teniers II (1610-1690)
Two women going to market, other figures with carts and pigs on a road in an extensive landscape
black lead, watermark arms of Basle (Briquet 1383)
215 x 332 mm.; and a drawing of Shepherds with their flocks attributed to Mathys van den Bergh after Titian, a presumed portrait of Susanna Fourment and a Presentation of the Virgin, both by an artist in the circle of Rubens, and four drawings by Northern hands (8)

Provenance

(1) A.J. Dezallier d'Argenville (L. 2951), with his number '1535'.
with the Matthiesen Gallery, London, 1963, no. 57.

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Lot Essay

After a lost picture by Pieter Breughel the Elder formerly in the collection of C. van der Geest and Peter Stevens entitled The Heath, known through a copy in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, illustrated in W. Adler, Landscapes and Hunting Scenes in Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, London, 1982, XVII, part I, fig. 70. The original is also seen in the upper left corner of Wilhelm van Hecht's The picture gallery of C. van der Geest.

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