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Follower of Jan Breughel I
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Follower of Jan Breughel I

A broad landscape with travellers and wagons on a path by a windmill

Details
Follower of Jan Breughel I
A broad landscape with travellers and wagons on a path by a windmill
with signature 'BRVEGHEL' (lower left)
oil on copper
6 5/8 x 8¾ in. (16.9 x 22.3 cm.)
Provenance
with Paul Daxsen, London, 1954, from whom acquired by the family of the present owner.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The composition, in which travellers are arranged in the foreground with a path and windmills receding into the distance, was a favourite of Jan Breughel I's and one that he repeated on numerous occasions, with differences in the details. No direct prototype is known for the present picture, although it would appear most closely to relate to the Broad landscape with a Windmill in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (see K. Ertz, Jan Breughel der Ältere, Cologne, 1979, p. 66, fig.37).

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