Travellers and peasants with sheep and cattle by a pond, a village seen beyond

Details

Jan Brueghel I (Brussels 1568-1625 Antwerp)
Travellers and peasants with sheep and cattle by a pond, a village seen beyond
dated (?) '161[6?]'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
8 1/8 x 12¼ in. (206 x 316 mm.)

Provenance

Thomas Philip Robinson, 3rd Baron de Grey, later 2nd Earl de Grey and 5th Baron Lucas (1781-1859), and by descent.

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Lot Essay

A study with minor differences for Brueghel's picture of A cattle pond by a country road (The Londoner Viehtränke), signed and dated 1616, now in the Wellington Museum at Apsley House, London (K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568-1625), Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Cologne, 1979, no. 306, fig. 43). The picture was part of the Spanish Royal Collections until it passed into the hands of the Duke of Wellington following his victory over the French at the Battle of Vittoria in June 1813.

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