LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on copper

Measurements:

20.75 in. (52.70 cm.) (height) by 28.50 in. (72.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'BRUEGHEL 1610' (l.l.), stamped on the reverse with the maker's mark of Peeter Stas (active Antwerp c. 1587-1610), dated 1610, and with the coat-of-arms of the city of Antwerp

Exhibited:

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; and Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, The Age of Rubens, 22 September 1993-24 April 1994, no. 83.

Literature:

K. Ertz, Jan Breughel the Younger (1601-1678): The Paintings with Oeuvre Catalogue, Freren, 1984, I, pp. 204-206, under no. 23. K. Ertz and C. Nitze-Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568- 1625): Kritischer Katalog der Gemälde, Lingen, 2008, I, p. 138, no. 39, illustrated, as a 'Meisterwerk'.

Provenance:

Private collection, Brazil. Anonymous sale [Property of a Family Collection]; Sotheby's, New York, 1 June 1990, lot 20 ($2,035,000). with Verner Amell Ltd, London/Newhouse Galleries, New York, 12 March 1991, from whom acquired.