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NICOLAS GUÉRARD (CIRCA 1648-1719) AFTER PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER (1525-1569)
Lot 74 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION

NICOLAS GUÉRARD (CIRCA 1648-1719) AFTER PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER (1525-1569)

The Wine of Saint Martin's Day

Closed9 December 2021

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NICOLAS GUÉRARD (CIRCA 1648-1719) AFTER PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER (1525-1569)
The Wine of Saint Martin's Day
engraving, circa 1666-1670, on laid paper, a good, tonal impression of this rare print, trimmed inside the platemark but retaining fillet of blank paper outside the borderline or subject, lacking the text border below, the paper backed with a sheet of modern laid paper, some defects
Sheet 301 x 510 mm.

Specialist note

According to the dedication and inscription in the lower border, lacking in the present impression, this engraving was commissioned by Abraham Brueghel, the great-grandson of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and dedicated to Gasparo Altieri. The small inscription at lower centre left, just above the borderline, reveals that the composition, depicted here in reverse, was at the time attributed to Abraham's grandfather, Jan Brueghel the Elder, rather than his great-grandfather Pieter. It was only in 2010 that the The Wine of Saint Martin's Day was identified at the Prado, Madrid, as the work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the largest of all his paintings.