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Coastal Landscape with Sacrifice of Jonah (London)

Coastal Landscape with Sacrifice of Jonah (London)

Object type Painting
Genre Religious
Date 1595
Dimensions 26 x 35 cm
Support Copper
Medium Oil
Signature BRUEGHEL 1595
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #217
Ertz 1979, #13
Location/Most Recent Sale London, Johnny van Haeften Ltd.
Tags Traveling, Coast, Harbor, Mountain, Burghers, Fishermen, Old Testament, Boat
Lavin 1975, pp. 171, 470, 716
Ertz 1979, cat. #13, pp. 28, 90, 92-3, 101, 108, 112, 114, 189, 559, fig. 5
Gerszi 1982, pp. 155-56, fig. 11
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #217
London 1979, cat. #4
Essen/Vienna 1997-98, cat. #49
Cremona 1998, #38
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1627 Rome Probably in the Collection of Francesco Maria del Monte
1620s Rome Probably acquired by Maffeo Barberini
1644 Rome Cardinal Antonio Barberini, Palazzo Barberini, manuscript inventory of 1644 (IV, inv.44, p.31, #364)
1934 Rome By descent in Barberini Collection until 1934
Rome Castellani
Before 1934 Amsterdam Galerie de Boer
1979 Kettwig Girardet Collection
Dec 3 2008 London Sale, Sotheby's, Lot #10 (for 1,071,650 GBP)
E.A. Honig
April 17, 2012

The dating of this piece to 1595 indicates that Jan Brueghel was still on Rome when it was painted. It was in a Barberini collection by 1623 (Bedoni 61-63; sale catalogue Sotheby's) and could have originally been intended for a patron related to that family; or it may have been purchased by Maffeo Barberini in 1620s in Rome. The relevant inventory lists other works by Brueghel in the same room with this one.

This painting is also the earliest version of a composition he would later expand upon in several more New Testament scenes while back in Antwerp. Closely related to "Harbor with Preaching of Christ" (Ertz/Honig 33) although using a different narrative, as well as distantly related to the 1598 " Sea Harbor with Preaching of Christ".