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Object Type
Museum number: 1946,0713.966
Description: Peasants in a wood going to market; a wagon on the road at centre and a man driving two pigs behind, a group of peasants to right and other wagons in the distance, trees either side; after Jan Brueghel I Pen and brown ink with grey and blue wash
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School/style
Production date: 1607 (c.)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 188 millimetres; Width: 294 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: After the 1607 painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, inv.no.1974.293; a smaller version on copper is in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, inv.no.1895. The two horsemen in the forest at left are not included in the drawing. A preparatory drawing was sold at auction in Leipzig in 1930. Literature: K. Ertz, "Jan Brueghel der Ältere: Die Gemälde", Cologne, 1979, pp.149-151, cat.no.149 and 158 (the BM drawing is not discussed by Ertz).
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Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (Lugt 1530; his sale, Thomas Philipe's, London, 10.vi.1811/109 as 'Brueghel (Jan) One - a Flemish woody landscape, with figures, and waggons going to and returning from market - fine pen, bistre, Indian ink and indigo' (bt by 'Thane' for £0-7-0)); Previous owner/ex-collection: John Thane; Previous owner/ex-collection: William Esdaile; Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445); Previous owner/ex-collection: Samuel Woodburn (Christie's, 4.vi.1860/93 as 'Brueghel - Landscapes, with market carts &c. - tinted', 3 in the lot, bt by Phillipps £0-11-0); Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Phillipps; Previous owner/ex-collection: Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick
Acquisition date: 1946
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1946,0713.966

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