Country Road with Farm Wagons
Object type | Painting |
Genre | Landscape |
Date | 1609-1610 |
Dimensions | 45 x 66 cm |
Support | Panel |
Medium | Oil |
Our attribution | Produced in Jan Brueghel's Studio |
Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #57 Ertz 1979, #204 as uncertain, possibly studio |
Location | Gotha, Germany |
Collection | Schlossmuseum |
Accession numbers | inv. #714/668 |
Tags | Traveling, Cattle, Horse, Village, Forest, Road, Wagon |
I question this attribution because 1) its actually odd to have a work that relates to no other one; and 2) the dying tree doesn't seem like Jan. Also, the attribution is based partly on a drawing, ostensibly dated 1610, which even Ertz has as a questionable attribution. I'd feel better if Winner had accepted it [check that]. The same staffage is reused in a work in Enschede that Ertz attributes to Jan the Younger and Momper, making me think that this drawing was some sort of pattern to be copied. There are some things really wrong with this drawing (proportions of cows) although to be fair they do not occur in the present painting.