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Follower of Pieter Brueghel II
Lot 813 PROPERTY OF THE BASS MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISIONS FUND

Follower of Pieter Brueghel II

The Battle between Carnival and Lent

Closed29 October 2019

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Follower of Pieter Brueghel II
The Battle between Carnival and Lent
oil on panel, circular
10 5/8 in. (26.8 cm.) diameter

La Borderie collection; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 19 July 1927, lot 21, as attributed to Pieter Bruegel I.
Anonymous sale; Galerie Fievez, Brussels, 8 April 1930, lot 22, as School of Pieter Brueghel II.
Acquired by John and Johanna Bass, by whom donated to the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, in 1964.

Specialist note

The composition of this painting ultimately derives from an oil sketch by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. A very similar painting attributed by Klaus Ertz to Hieronymus Francken the Younger is in the collection of the Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp (loc. cit., pp. 249, 256, no. 197, fig. 187).