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Jan Breughel II (Antwerp 1601-1678)
Lot 126 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOTS 3, 10, 30, 40-42, 51 & 124-132)

Jan Breughel II (Antwerp 1601-1678)

An extensive landscape with peasants and a horse-drawn wagon

Closed4 July 2012

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GBP 55,250

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Jan Breughel II (Antwerp 1601-1678)
An extensive landscape with peasants and a horse-drawn wagon
oil on copper
4 5/8 x 6¾ in. (11.7 x 17.2 cm.)
with the armorial black wax seal of de Mestral de Saint-Saphorin and an old inscription 'Breughel velour' (on the reverse)

(Probably) Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de Saint-Saphorin, no. 446 in his inventory (according to the label on the reverse); his sale (+), Wipplingerstraße, 392, 19 May 1806, lot 31, as 'Johann Breughel, genannt Sammet Breughel', 'Eine Landschaft mit der Ansicht einer Windmühle und mit Figuren und Viehe staffirt', copper, 2¼ x 3½ Zoll.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1998, lot 70 ($57,500 to the present owners).

Specialist note

We are grateful to Jan van Helmont for suggesting the Saint-Saphorin provenance on the basis of the coat-of-arms on the reverse. Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de Saint-Saphorin, a diplomat of Swiss origins, represented the Kingdom of Denmark to the Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna, and assembled a significant collection of paintings and prints, including masterpieces such as Rembrandt's Andromeda, commissioned from the artist by Constantijn Huygens in circa 1630 (The Hague, The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis).