LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pen and brown ink, traces of brown wash

Measurements:

7.76 in. (19.70 cm.) (height) by 10.16 in. (25.80 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Kupferstichkabinett, Pieter Bruegel d. Ä als Zeichner: Herkunft und Nachfolge , 1975, no. 39, fig. 64 (catalogue entry by M. Winner). New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pieter Bruegel the Elder Drawings and Prints , 2001, no. 17 (catalogue entry by N. Orenstein)

Literature:

K. Arndt, 'Frühe Landschaftszeichnungen von Pieter Bruegel d. Ä', Pantheon , 25, 1967, no. 3. K. Arndt, 'Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. und die Geschichte der 'Waldlandschaft'', Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen , 14, 1972, no. 5. H. Mielke, Pieter Bruegel: Die Zeichnungen , Turnhout, 1996, no. 9. M. Sellink, Bruegel: The complete paintings, drawings and prints . New York, 2007, p. 60, no. 17, ill. M. Sellink, 'The dating of Pieter Bruegel's landscape drawings reconsidered and a new discovery', Master Drawings , LI, 2013, no. 3, pp. 296, 320, nt. 3

Provenance:

Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, and by descent to the present owner