Country Road with Windmill
Object type | Painting |
Genre | Landscape |
Date | 1611 |
Dimensions | 9.5 x 15 cm |
Support | Copper |
Medium | Oil |
Signature | BRUEGHEL 1611 |
Our attribution | Jan Brueghel the Elder |
Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #155 Ertz 1979, #236 |
Location | Munich, Germany |
Collection | Alte Pinakothek |
Accession numbers | inv. #1892 |
Tags | Dog, Horse, Windmill, Peasants, Road, Wagon |
Poor related copy sold at R. H. Ward, London, on May 15, 1934 with a pendant of a village scene and windmill. Both of these works are attributed as Jan Brueghel II and both are works on copper with a dimension of 15 x 20.5 cm.
Poor variant formerly art market Monaco (Sotheby's 15/16.vi.90 #506), (panel, 17 x 20). Another work related to that variant sold Stockholm, Anktrousverk, 22/23.v.01 #1401, (panel, 17 x 22). Different variant formerly art market London: Koetser 1964 (copper, 12.1 x 17.8).
Variant in Dresden, dated same year, has fascinating relationship to this one: it's as if he's walked to a different place and looked at the same pair of windmills from the front instead of from the back. Query does this argue that there were real structures that he observed or that--as with Rembrandt and figural compositions--he was able to sort of spin things around in his imagination? The Dresden painting is also on different support and much larger.