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By Land and By Sea, The Collection of Paul Yeou Chichong

Pieter Brueghel the Younger

The Return from the Inn

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May 25, 03:13 PM GMT

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2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

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By Land and By Sea, The Collection of Paul Yeou Chichong

Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Brussels 1564 - 1637/8 Antwerp

The Return from the Inn


signed lower right: .P. BREVGHEL .

oil on panel

panel: 30 by 41 in.; 76.2 by 104.1 cm.

framed: 37¼ by 48¼ in.; 94.6 by 122.6 cm.

Major James William Stirling-Home-Drummond-Moray (1900-1968), 21st of Abercairny, Pertshire, before 1946;
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 28 June 1946, lot 4;
There acquired by Slatter Gallery, London;
Sir Francis Glyn K.C.M.G., Hole Farm, Albury, Much Hadham, Herfordshire;
By whose executors sold, London, Christie's, 26 June 1970, lot 93;
There acquired by Brod Gallery, London;
Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Lady of Title"), London, Sotheby's, 7 December 1988, lot 92;
With Galerie de Jonckheere, Brussels;
Acquired by the present owner, 1990. 
The Connoisseur, vol. CXX, September 1947, p. 29, cat. no. 505, reproduced fig. 120;
H. Shipp, The Flemish Painters, London 1953, p. 104, reproduced in color plate XVIII;
F.M. Godfrey, "Some notes on the Winter Exhibition at Burlington House," in Studio, March 1954, p. 77;
G. Marlier, Pierre Brueghel le Jeune, Brussels 1969, p. 418, cat. no. 2, detail reproduced fig. 265;
S.J. Flower, "Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Brod Gallery," in The Connoisseur, vol. CLXXV, September 1970, p. 71;
Apollo, vol. XCII, September 1970;
K. Ertz, in Pieter Breughel der Jüngere - Jan Brueghel der Ältere: Flämische Malerei um 1600 Tradition und Fortschritt, exhibition catalogue, Lingen 1997, pp. 385-387, under cat. no. 126, note 1;
K. Ertz, in Pieter Breughel le Jeune - Jan Brueghel l'Ancien: Une famille des peintures, exhibition catalogue, Lingen 1998, pp. 372-375, under cat. no. 133, note 1;
K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere (1564-1637/38): die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Lingen 2000, vol. II, pp. 804, 829, cat. no. 1157, reproduced p. 804, fig. 648 (as dated circa 1623).