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Lot 8
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Pieter Brueghel the Younger

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Description

  • Pieter Brueghel the Younger
  • peasants making merry outside a tavern 'the swan'
  • oil on oak panel

Provenance

Bought by the grandfather of the present owner circa 1932-5, possibly from Pieter de Boer, Amsterdam, in whose archive is to be found the only known old photograph.

Literature

K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere (1564-1637/38).  Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Lingen 2000, vol. II, p. 846, no. E (=Echt) 1186, reproduced.

Catalogue Note

Some nine versions of this composition are known by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, all on panels of approximately the same size.  Four are dated, between 1625 and 1632.  The present picture has hitherto been known only through a photograph of "exceptionally good quality" in the De Boer archive, on the basis of which Klaus Ertz considers it to be an autograph replica by Pieter Brueghel the Younger.