Jan Brueghel the Elder
River landscape on the edge of a town
Lot Closed
July 6, 03:03 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Circle of Jan Brueghel the Elder
Brussels 1568 - 1625 Antwerp
River landscape on the edge of a town
Pen and brown ink and brown and touches of blue wash;
bears numberings in pencil, verso: 288, and 114. P. Breughel
193 by 301 mm
Jacob Helmolt (1747-1808), Haarlem (L.2986b, his numbering: No-598);
William Mayor (d.1874), London (L.2799);
Gustav Schiller, Frankfurt,
sale of his collection, Frankfurt am Main, Prestel, 20 October 1908, lot 17;
Freiherr Max von Heyl zu Herrnsheim (1844-1925), Darmstadt (L.2879)
William Mayor (d.1874), London (L.2799);
Gustav Schiller, Frankfurt,
sale of his collection, Frankfurt am Main, Prestel, 20 October 1908, lot 17;
Freiherr Max von Heyl zu Herrnsheim (1844-1925), Darmstadt (L.2879)
As Louisa Wood Ruby has kindly pointed out to us, another drawing with the same composition, but reduced to the right, was formerly in Bremen.1
1. Bremen, Kunsthalle, inv. 09/699; Dokumentation der durch Auslagerung im 2. Weltkrieg vermißten Kunstwerke der Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen 1991, pp. 221-2, no. 1200, reproduced
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