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Studio of Jan Brueghel the Elder Brussels 1568 - 1625 Antwerp
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Description
- Jan Brueghel the Elder
- an open landscape with figures, horses and carts before a cottage overlooking a pond, a windmill on higher ground to the left and a church in the distance
- signed and dated lower left: BRUEGHEL. 1608
- oil on copper
Provenance
Acquired by the stepfather of the present owner during the 1960s.
Catalogue Note
This landscape relates closely to an unpublished painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder, signed and dated 1609, listed by Ertz as with Noortman & Brod Gallery in 1982, which is also known through a replica given by Ertz to Jan Brueghel the Younger, formerly with the same owners (see K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel the Younger, vol. I, Freren 1984, pp. 211-2, no. 30, reproduced). The staffage in the present work differs entirely from these versions, however, and its dating to 1608, a year before the Jan Brueghel the Elder, suggests that a direct prototype by the father was painted at around that time or a little earlier.