Country Road with Elegant Travelers, Including Nursing Mother
| Object type | Painting |
| Genre | Landscape |
| Date | 1619 |
| Dimensions | 26.8 x 37 cm |
| Support | Copper |
| Medium | Oil |
| Signature | BRUEGHEL 1619 |
| Our attribution | Jan Brueghel the Elder |
| Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #25 Ertz 1979, #347 |
| Location | Munich, Germany |
| Collection | Alte Pinakothek |
| Accession numbers | inv. #1877 |
| Tags | Traveling, Dog, Horse, Swine, Forest, Burghers, Children, Road, Wagon |
This work is kind of a pastiche. The figure group is definitely put together from other works, including i think the View of Schelle, and the pigs rooting around beside the road don't make any sense. The whole scene doesn't make a lot of sense. There was a drawing for the staffage figures on art market Vienna (Dorotheum) 1995. Red chalk, 17.2 x 26.3. The figures here aren't his best work. Wonder if there could be studio hands involved here? Poss is there some sort of village with fair in backgound (which would help make sense of all this).
Two copies were on the art market in 1970, one with Gal. Flinck in Brussels and another with Christie's, London.