LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

21.50 in. (54.60 cm.) (height) by 29.80 in. (75.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated lower left: P BREVGHEL . 1627

Literature:

Probably G. Marlier, . Pierre Brueghel le Jeune , Brussels 1969, p. 403 (as known from a photograph in the Witt Library, London);. Probably K. Ertz, . Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere (1564-1637/38). Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog , vol. II, Lingen 1988/2000, p. 907, no. F1233 (known only from Marlier's citation

Provenance:

Probably F.B. Greenstreet, London;. Acquired by an American private collector . circa 1940, and thence by inheritance to the previous owner;. Anonymous sale ("Property of an American Collector"), New York, Sotheby's, 29 January 2009, lot 43;. There acquired by the present collector