Attack on Traveler in the Woods
| Object type | Painting |
| Genre | Landscape |
| Date | ca. 1605 |
| Dimensions | 41 x 65.5 cm |
| Support | Panel |
| Medium | Oil |
| Collaborators | Sebastiaen Vrancx |
| Our attribution | Jan Brueghel the Elder |
| Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #95 Ertz 1979, #134 |
| Location | Warsaw, Poland |
| Collection | Muzeum Narodowe |
| Accession numbers | inv. #622, 1885 |
| Tags | Hunting, Robbery, Birds, Vrancx, Forest, Stream |
Attribution of this one has been doubted and it is indeed peculiar in the sense that the landscape is a late adaptation of some of Jan's very early forest landscape paintings, like Ertz 1979 #2 & 2a. The bridging work between them and this would be a painting formerly in a Russian museum (copper, 14.9 x 18.3, photo RKD), but I also wonder about the attribution of that one. On the other hand, the figures are by Vrancx who was notoriously fussy about not having studio copies of his work; so surely he would have insisted on collaborating with Jan himself?