Property from the SØR Rusche Collection
CIRCLE OF ADRIAEN BROUWER | A farmer resting on a bench in a landscape
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Property from the SØR Rusche Collection
CIRCLE OF ADRIAEN BROUWER
A FARMER RESTING ON A BENCH IN A LANDSCAPE
oil on oak panel
unframed: 13.1 x 9.8 cm.; 5¼ x 3⅞ in.
framed: 21.3 x 17.7 cm.; 8⅜ x 7 in.
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Rotterdam, Kunsthal, At Home in the Golden Age, 9 February – 18 May 2008, no. 55.
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H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 2, Genre, Münster/Hamburg/London 1996, pp. 74-77, cat. no. 16, reproduced in colour (as Follower of Adriaen Brouwer);
W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M.J. Bok et al, At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 72, cat. no. 55, reproduced in colour (as Circle of Adriaen Brouwer).
The artist of the present painting clearly drew inspiration from Adriaen Brouwer. This small panel bears similarities in composition and handling to two works by Brouwer in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, one depicting a peasant with a bird,1 and another a peasant with a dog.2