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Rocky Landscape with Flight into Egypt (New York)

Rocky Landscape with Flight into Egypt (New York)

Object type Painting
Genre Religious
Diameter 18.5 cm
Support Copper
Medium Oil
Signature BRUEGHEL 1600
Our attribution Produced in Jan Brueghel's Studio
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #232
Ertz 1979, #62
Location/Most Recent Sale New York, Sotheby's, May 20, 1993, #25
Tags Traveling, Bridge, Inn, Watermill, Forest, River, Burghers, Christ, Holy family, New Testament, Virgin Mary
Ertz 1979, cat. #62, fig. 251
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #232
Before 1922 Mechthilde Lichnowsky
Before 1922 Berlin Cassirer
May 29 1922 Helbing, #12
Before 1957 Collection of N.H. Marder
Jun 21 1957 London Sale, Christie's, Lot #32
After 1957 London Slatter Gallery
Apr 2 1976 Sale, Christie's, Lot #52 (with false details)
1979 Zürich David M. Koetser
E.A. Honig
May 11, 2012

Several related drawings, including one in Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet (inv. #1919:34), a drawing which Winner dates just before 1600 and he sees some connections with motifs from Coninxloo.
Lots of doubts noted in files at RKD on this one and I agree. There's some wierd streaking of surface that isn't like Jan, and figures don't have his usual verge.
When this was sold at Christie's in 1976 the catalog listed it as being on copper: which is it?
Copy Goteborg, Konstmuseet; parts of background borrowed by a follower in Forest Landscape in Leipzig, Museum der Bildenden Kunste; copy of same size but on panel (note this trend!) sold London (Christie's 5.ii.88 #132). The last of these is now accepted as Ertz 2008-10, #233.