Grain Harvest
Object type | Painting |
Genre | Allegory |
Date | 1614 |
Dimensions | 9.4 x 15 cm |
Support | Copper |
Medium | Oil |
Signature | BRUEGHEL 1614 |
Our attribution | Produced in Jan Brueghel's Studio |
Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #530 Ertz 1979, #281 as uncertain, possibly studio |
Location/Most Recent Sale | Unknown, Private Collection |
Tags | Harvesting, Resting, Horse, Field, Landscape, Wagon |
There are numerous larger copies of this tiny work. Two that I reject are Ertz 1979 #s 284 and 285. Another version, not bad (better than 284!) but not genuine, sold Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 28.x.58 #451 (panel, 40 x 60); good photo of that at RKD. It was expertised by Friedländer in 1958 as Jan the Elder. A poor copy in Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, 17 x 28.5 in.
In the present work, a lot of figures are heavily drawn but not very filled in, and the brushwork is not lively. However, in very small works like this it's hard to judge.