JAN BRUEGHEL I (BRUSSELS 1568-1625 ANTWERP) - photo 1
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JAN BRUEGHEL I (BRUSSELS 1568-1625 ANTWERP)

Lot 123
25.01.2023 16:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 123 | JAN BRUEGHEL I (BRUSSELS 1568-1625 ANTWERP)
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$ 2 500 000 – 3 500 000
JAN BRUEGHEL I (BRUSSELS 1568-1625 ANTWERP)

Summer landscape with tilt-carts

signed and dated 'BRVEGHEL 1612' (lower right)

oil on copper

9 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. (24.8 x 37.5 cm.)





Provenance

(Probably) Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine and Count Palatine of Neuberg (1658-1716), Düsseldorf, by inheritance to his brother,

(Probably) Karl Philipp III, Elector Palatine and Count Palatine of Neuberg (1661-1742), Mannheim, inv. no. 49, as ‘Eine Landschafft, von F. Bruegel’, by inheritance to his nephew,

Karl Theodor, Elector Palatine and later Elector of Bavaria (1724-1799), Munich, by inheritance to,

Maximilian IV Joseph, Elector of the Palatinate-Bavaria, later Maximilian I Joseph, King of Bavaria (1756-1825), Mannheim and Schleissheim, and by descent to his son,

Ludwig I, King of Bavaria (1786-1868), Schleissheim, by whom transferred in 1836 to,

Alte Pinakothek, Munich, inv. no. 836 (in Augsburg), by whom exchanged on 11 December 1937 with four other works to the following,

with Eduard Plietzsch, Berlin.

with P. de Boer, Amsterdam.

Brenninkmeyer collection, Hilversum, Netherlands, by 1960.

with Otto Naumann, New York, from whom acquired by,

Private collection, New York.

with Sotheby's Private Sales, where acquired by the present owner in 2014.



Literature

(Possibly) J. van Gool, ‘Catalogus en uitvoerige Beschriyvinge der voortrefflyke onschatbaere Schilderkunst’, in De nieuwe Schouburg der nederlantsche kunstschilders en Schilderessen, II, The Hague, 1751, p. 559, as ‘Een Koets en twee Wagens, met een menigte afbeeltsels, zo van Menschen als Beesten, in een schoon Landscap’.

Verzeichnis der in den Churfürstlichen Cabinetten zu Mannheim befindlichen Mahlereyen, 1756, no. 146, ‘Eine Landschafft, von F. Bruegel’.

(Probably) J.C. von Mannlich, Beschreibung der Churpfalzbaierischen Gemälde-Sammlungen zu München und zu Schleißheim, III, Munich, 1810, p. 180, no. 2225, as one of a pair ‘Zwen landschaften mit figuren, Wagen und land;ichen Gabauden…Das andere mit der Audlicht auf eine schone Ferne’.

(Probably) J.G. von Dillis, Verzeichnis der Gemaelde in der königlichen Pinakothek zu München, Munich 1838, p. 210, no. 222, as ‘Ein mit vielen bespannten Wagen belebter Weg furhrt durch einen Wald. Rechts die Aussicht in ein fruchtbares von einem Flusse bewassertes Thal mit eine Dofkirche’.

Katalog der Gemälde-Sammlung der Kgl. Älteren Pinakothek in München: Mit einer historischen Einleitung von Dr. Franz von Reber, Munich, 1886, p. 143, no. 701.

A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Küstler-Lexicon, I, Vienna and Leipzig, 1906, p. 205.

Katalog der Königl. filial-Gemäldegalerie zu Augsburg, Augsburg, 1912, p. 7, no. 695.

K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568-1625): Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Cologne, 1979, pp. 47, 49, 80, 89 and 601, no. 261, fig. 19.

E. Korthals Altes, ‘The Collections of the Palatine Electors: New Information, Documents and Drawings’, The Burlington Magazine, CXLV, 2003, p. 215, no. 49.

K. Ertz and C. Nitze-Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568- 1625): Kritischer Katalog der Gemälde, I, Lingen, 2008, p. 111, no. 22.



Exhibited

Augsburg, Gemäldegalerie, 1912, no. 695.

Breda, Cultureel Centrum de Beyerd and Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Le paysage aux Pays-Bas de Bruegel à Rubens (1550-1630), 16 December 1960-27 March 1961, no. 18.

Laren, Singer Museum, Modernen van Toen, 1570-1630: Vlaamse schilderkunst en haar invloed, 5 June-1 September 1963, no. 38.
Applied technique:Metalwork, Oil, Painted
Medium:Copper
Place of origin:Belgium, Western Europe, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings
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