Saint Margaret and the Dragon in a Landscape
Object type | Painting |
Genre | Religious |
Date | ca. 1595 |
Dimensions | 26.5 x 35.5 cm |
Support | Copper |
Medium | Oil |
Our attribution | Jan Brueghel the Elder |
Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #309 |
Location/Most Recent Sale | London, Sotheby's, December 3, 2008, #9 for 109,250 pounds |
Tags | Parrot, Forest, Mountain, New Testament, Saint |
There is a copy of this painting in the Museo Civico, Cremona, illustrated in Morandotti, Milano profana nell'età dei Borromeo, p.218. He attributes it to a local painter, Carlo Antonio Procaccini; but if so, Procaccini was somehow copying after this painting which is by Brueghel.