ATTRIBUTED TO JAN BREUGHEL THE YOUNGER | A LANDSCAPE WITH TRAVELERS BEING ROBBED

Gemäldegalerie, Vienna, inv. no. 812, from at least 1781 until deacessioned in 1923;

From whom acquired by Baron Hans Pereira, Vienna (as manner of Pieter Bruegel);

From whom acquired by Friedrich Mahler (1888-1958), Vienna, 1925 and Toronto, from 1939;

Thence by descent in the family to the present owners.

C. von Mechel, Verzeichniss der Gemälde der Kaiserlich Königlichen Bilder Gallerie in Wien, Vienna 1783, p. 186, cat. no. 75 (as Jan Brueghel the Elder);

E. Engerth, Gemälde. Beschreibendes Verzeichniss, vol. II, Vienna 1882, cat. no. 751 (as manner of Pieter Bruegel).

This panel follows almost exactly a signed and dated composition by Jan Brueghel the Elder in the Prado Museum, Madrid.¹ 

1. oil on panel, 33 by 43 cm, signed and dated lower left: BRVEGHEL 1603, inv. no. P001433.