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Lot 4
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Manner of Pieter Brueghel the Younger

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Description

  • Pieter Brueghel the Younger
  • a village scene with peasants dancing outside an inn
  • bears a Brueghel-signature and 1610-date lower right
  • oil on panel

Provenance

With Hermann Findel, Leipzig;
With Kunst-säle Louis Bock & Sohn (both the above according to labels on the reverse).

Catalogue Note

This painting is based on compositions by Pieter Brueghel the Elder and the Younger. The left part of the composition is taken directly from a painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, depicting Peasants dancing, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. no. 1059). The two dancing couples to the right here can be seen in several paintings by Brueghel the Younger, and originates, in reverse, in a print by Pieter van der Heyden after Brueghel the Elder (see Hollstein vol. IX, no. 61).