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Adoration of the Magi (Antwerp, Mayer-van den Bergh)

Adoration of the Magi (Antwerp, Mayer-van den Bergh)

Object type Painting
Genre Religious
Date ca. 1600
Dimensions 20.7 x 32 cm
Support Copper
Medium Oil
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #231
Location Antwerp, Belgium
Collection Museum Mayer van den Bergh
Accession numbers inv. #806
Tags Resting, Horse, Bridge, House, Pieter Bruegel, River, Burghers, Children, Soldiers, Christ, New Testament, Virgin Mary
Essen 1997, #5
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #231
1897 London Purchased from Farr, London
Christine Quach
June 4, 2012

Copy sold Sotheby's London November 25, 1970 #21. Awful copy sold Brussels, Nackers, October 13 1965 (copper, 48 x 35). (PDT)

Copy sold Christie's London July 28, 1950 (gouache, 24 x 31 cm). Bought by Leger.

E.A. Honig
June 4, 2012

Although Ertz puts this work after the version in the Koninklijk Museum, Antwerp (Ertz 1979 #63), it seems to me that it relates more to the earlier versions of the subject and could predate that work.