LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

47.01 in. (119.40 cm.) (height) by 67.40 in. (171.20 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Essen, Villa Hügel; Ruhr, Kulturstiftung; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches. Museum; and Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Pieter. Brueghel der Jüngere-Jan Brueghel der Ältere. Flamische Malerei um 1600 Tradition und Fortschritt, 1997-1998, no. 103.

Literature:

G. Marlier, Pierre Brueghel Le Jeune, Brussels, 1969, p. 117. K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere-Jan Brueghel der Ältere. Flämische Malerei um 1600 Tradition und Fortschritt, exhibition. catalogue, Vienna and Antwerp, 1997-8, pp. 336-42, no. 103. K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere, Lingen, 2000, I, p. 254,. no. E186, and pp. 221, 225-6 and 245, figs. 181-2.

Provenance:

A.J.H. Repelaer van Spijkenisse collection, where first recorded in 1884. Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 6 May 1993, lot 98, as 'Attributed to Pieter Brueghel II'. with Johnny van Haeften, London. Private collection from 1996; Christie's, London, 7 December 2006, lot 31 (sold £3,256,000 to the present owner).