LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

28.74 in. (73.00 cm.) (height) by 40.55 in. (103.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'P.BREUGHEL. 1619' (lower left)

Exhibited:

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Taste of the Seventies, 2 April-3 September 1946, no. 3.

Literature:

B. Burroughs, the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, New York, 1931, p. 37. H.B. Mehle and M.M. Salinger, A Catalogue of Early Flemish, Dutch and German Paintings, New York, 1947, pp. 160-1, illustrated. J.L. Allen and E.E. Gardner, A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1954, p. 14, no. 71.25. G. Marlier, Pierre Brueghel le Jeune, Brussels 1969, p. 271, p. 267, no. 4, fig. 158. R. Hughes and P. Bianconi, Complete Paintings of Bruegel, New York, 1978, p. 114. K. Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1980, I, p. 21; III, p. 365, illustrated. R. Genaille, ‘“Naer den ouden Brueghel”. Le rixe de paysans’, Jaarboek van het Koninklijke Museum voor Schone Kunsten te Antwerpen, 1980, pp. 95-6. W. Liedtke, ‘“Peasants Fighting Over Cards” by Pieter Bruegel and Sons’, Artibus et Historiae, 10, 1989, pp. 123-131. K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere (1564-1637/38): die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Lingen, 2000, II, pp. 766-8 and 787, no. 1055, fig. 610.

Provenance:

Count Cornet de Ways-Ruart de Vanêche, Brussels. Etienne LeRoy, Brussels, 1871. the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no. 7125), by 1931, deaccessioned; Sotheby's, New York, 19 January 1984, lot 130. with Colnaghi, London, 1985. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1986, lot 55, when acquired by the following, Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 29 January 1999, lot 76, when acquired by the present owner.