drawing
- Museum number
- 1883,0811.36
- Description
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A canal with sloops; a canal extending straight into the distance, in the foreground several people in a rowing boat, a coach and horses approaching on the dyke at left, and a church amid trees behind
Pen and brown ink with brown wash and blue and green watercolour
- Production date
- 1620 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 194 millimetres
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Width: 298 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- This drawing shows stylistic similarities with another pen and ink composition by Brueghel in the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin (inv.no.5734; dated 1620); see M. Winner, 'Zeichnungen des Älteren Jan Brueghel', in Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 3 (1961), Berlin, 1961, p.238; and K. Ertz, "Jan Brueghel der Ältere: Die Gemälde", Cologne, 1979, pp.180-181, fig.207.
Literature: M. Winner, 'Zeichnungen des Älteren Jan Brueghel', in Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 3 (1961), Berlin, 1961, p.240, n.111 (as a skilful copy; dismissing the rare yellow watercolour and the 'stick'-men unloading the sloop at left); exh.cat. Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, 1975 (omitted); K. Ertz, "Jan Brueghel der Ältere: Die Gemälde", Cologne, 1979, p.523, n.188; 'Dutch Landscape: The Early Years', exh.cat. National Gallery, London, 1986, cat.no.10.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1958 Apr, BM, Eight centuries of landscape ... water-colours, case 21
1986 Sep-Nov, London, NG, 'Dutch Landscape', no. 10
- Acquisition date
- 1883
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1883,0811.36