Cityscape with Busy Street
Object type | Painting |
Genre | Staffage in Landscape |
Date | 1610-1615 |
Dimensions | 66.7 x 88.2 cm |
Support | Panel |
Medium | Oil |
Collaborators | Joos de Momper |
Our attribution | Produced in Jan Brueghel's Studio |
Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #715 |
Location/Most Recent Sale | London, Johnny van Haeften Ltd., 2008, inv. #6 |
Tags | Birds, Dog, Horse, Village, Momper, Beggars, Burghers, Peasants, Cityscape, Cart, Wagon |
Ertz notes that there are two variants by Momper in which the staffage was done by Jan the Younger; these are illustrated in Ertz 2008-10, vol. 4, pp. 1380 & 1381. I do not believe this, however: the version in Paris, Gal. d'Art St. Honore, is a very inferior work that is by neither Momper nor Jan the Younger but by a copyist of a finished work. The version in Russia is much better yet the identical staffage is odd and makes me suspect that it is a full copy somehow as well, not a second collaboration.