Follower of Sir Peter Paul Rubens

M. Heris, by 1910;
With D.A. Hoogendijk, Amsterdam;
From whom purchased by the Toledo Museum of Art in 1954 (Acc. no. 54-57, purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment);
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 26 January 2007, lot 323, where acquired by the present owner.

Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Art de Belgique, L'art Belge au XVIIe Siècle, 1910, no. 293 (as by Rubens, lent by M. Heris);
Antwerp, Musée des Beaux Arts, 1914.

Trésors de l'art belge au XVIIme siècle, I, Brussels 1912, p. 112, no. 293, plate LI (as by Rubens);
Art Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 2, 1955, p. 198;
The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo 1976, p. 395;
W. Adler, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Landscapes, Part XVIII, vol. I, Oxford 1982, p. 192, cat. no. 86, fig. 169, (as a later pastiche).

The oak panel is cradled. There is a repaired horizontal surface split in the sky. Paint surface is very well preserved in general. The bridge at the lower left has been strengthened and retouched as, to a lesser extent, has the cart. There are scattered retouchings throughout the sky.
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