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Follower of Jan Brueghel I (Brussels 1568-1625 Antwerp)
Lot 43 PROPERTY FROM A SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOTS 43 AND 47)

Follower of Jan Brueghel I (Brussels 1568-1625 Antwerp)

A landscape with windmills, travellers and wagons in the foreground and a town beyond

Closed2 July 2013

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GBP 5,625

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Follower of Jan Brueghel I (Brussels 1568-1625 Antwerp)
A landscape with windmills, travellers and wagons in the foreground and a town beyond
with number '97' (verso)
pen and brown ink, brown and blue wash
10 x 15½ in. (25.2 x 39 cm.)

Specialist note

This was one of Brueghel's most popular compositions: a picture dated 1607 is in the Galleria Spada, Rome (K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere: Die Gemälde, Lingen, 2008, no. 152), a version in oils was at Christie's, New York, 26 January 2011, lot 23, and there are drawings in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (Ertz, fig. 178) and in the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (D.J. Johnson, Old Master Drawings from the Museum of Art, R.I.S.D., Providence, Rhode Island, 1983, no. 75). A drawing of the composition attributed to Jan Brueghel I was sold at Christie's, New York, 26 January 2011, lot 268.