Marten Rijckaert (Antwerp 1587-1631)

A wooded landscape with a village by a river, a church beyond

Details

Marten Rijckaert (Antwerp 1587-1631)
A wooded landscape with a village by a river, a church beyond
oil on panel
6 3/8 x 6 5/8 in. (16.2 x 16.9 cm.)

Provenance

John Compton Cavendish, 4th Baron Chesham (1894-1952), Latimer House, Buckinghamshire; Christie's, London, 31 January 1930, lot 81, as 'Brueghel' (part lot of three).
Anonymous sale; Vanderkindere, Brussels, 14 February 2012, lot 85, as 'Circle of Jan Brueghel the Elder'.

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Lot Essay

This picture derives from a fragment of an original composition by Jan Brueghel the Elder, dated by Klaus Ertz to around 1602 (previously with Galerie Gismondi, Paris; see K. Ertz and C. Nitze-Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568- 1625): Kritischer Katalog der Gemälde, Lingen, 2008, I, pp. 295-6, no. 137, illustrated).

We are grateful to Dr. Luuk Pijl for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs, who dates the work to the 1610s.

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