Please enable JavaScript in your browser.

Preaching of John the Baptist (Munich)

Preaching of John the Baptist (Munich)

Object type Painting
Genre Religious
Date 1598
Dimensions 41 x 59 cm
Support Panel
Medium Oil
Signature BRUEGHEL 1598
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #256
Ertz 1979, #51
Location Munich, Germany
Collection Alte Pinakothek
Accession numbers inv. #834
Tags Preaching, Pieter Bruegel, Forest, Burghers, Children, Soldiers, New Testament, John the Baptist, Saint
Van Gool 1750/51, vol 2. p. 560
Ertz 1979, cat. #51, fig. 51, pp. 429, 566
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #256
Munich 2013, cat. #25
Normal Light Images
Detail
Normal Light Images
Detail
Normal Light Images
Detail
1621 to 1622 Possibly in collection of Nicolaes Cornelis Cheeus (as "schilderye Lanschap Sint-Jans Predicatie gedaen by Jan Bruegel")
Until 1691 Antwerp Either this painting or the Basel version (Ertz 257) was in various Antwerp collections until 1691 (in a 1691 inventory it is explicitly said to be "naer syn vader")
1719 Düsseldorf Galerie Düsseldorf, inv. #50
1730 Mannheim Galerie Mannheim, inv. #47
E.A. Honig
July 30, 2012

One further version of this has been attributed to Jan the Elder or, alternatively, the Younger: painting in Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen; canvas, 110 x 164.

On the copies by Pieter the Younger, with some discussion of Jan as well, see now Currie and Allart 2012, especially 447-483.