Broad Landscape with Dairy Farming
| Object type | Painting |
| Genre | Urban, Common and Peasant Life |
| Date | ca. 1621 |
| Dimensions | 130 x 293 cm |
| Support | Canvas |
| Medium | Oil |
| Our attribution | Jan Brueghel the Elder |
| Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #577 Ertz 1979, #362 |
| Location | Madrid, Spain |
| Collection | Museo del Prado |
| Accession numbers | inv. #1444 |
| Tags | Farming, Birds, Cattle, Chickens, Rubens, Panorama, Stream, Burghers, Peasants, Landscape, Labor, Cart |
| External resources | Museo del Prado |
Many figures and animals in this work derive from drawings by Rubens; see Ertz on this. They are used in a 1620 paiting by Rubens in Munich and one in Berlin, and the cows relate to a Rubens painting now in the British royal collection, but there are also drawings by Rubens for those figures (& cows).
The present work is one of Jan Brueghel's largest, along with the Dijon View of Mariemont (which is itself a sort of expanded version of a small, detailed work from 1612).
The 1636 inventory records this as follows: "Otro lienzo del tamaño y moldura de los de la boda, habría dudas en que está demostrada la forma de hacer manteca, cámo se ordeñan las vacas y se hace la manteca en Flandres.” Archivo de Palacio, Madrid, leg. 768, fs. 33-35