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Sebastiaen Vrancx (Antwerp 1573-1647)

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Sebastiaen Vrancx (Antwerp 1573-1647)
A wooded landscape with travellers in a horse-drawn cart, peasants and cattle on a country road
signed with monogram 'SV' (lower centre, on the horse)
oil on panel
18½ x 33½ in. (47 x 85.1 cm.)

Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1980, lot 17.

Specialist note

Though almost an exact contemporary of Rubens, Vrancx's paintings are stylistically reminiscent of his predecessors Paul Bril and Jan Brueghel. The present picture can be dated to circa 1622, showing as it does a clear-cut and determined handling of form that is characteristic of his mature period.