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Village Kermis in Schelle with Self Portrait

Village Kermis in Schelle with Self Portrait

Object type Painting
Genre Village, Town and Cityscape
Date 1614
Dimensions 52 x 90.5 cm
Support Panel
Medium Oil
Signature BRUEGHEL 1614
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #133
Ertz 1979, #278
Location Vienna, Austria
Collection Kunsthistorisches Museum
Accession numbers inv. #9102
Tags Market, Birds, Dog, Church, House, Cheeus, Landing stage, River, Burghers, Kermis, Boat, Wagon
External resources Kunsthistorisches Museum
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, cat. 1958 #68
Ertz 1979, cat. #278, figs. 283, 536, pp. 78, 80, 88, 222, 332, 445
Monballieu 1982
Weid in Essen/Vienna 1997-98, pp. 520-24
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #133, pp. 286-88
Brussels 1980, cat. #131
Essen/Vienna 1997-98, cat. #199
1622 Antwerp Collection of N. C. Cheeus as ("Een Schilderye Iantschap, gelegentheyt van Schelle, gedaen by Jan Bruegel, geestimeert op drye hondert vyftich gulden")
1663 Antwerp Anna de Schot, widow of N. C. Cheeus (valued at 1200 guilders)
1746 Vienna Counts of Schönborn, Cat.1894, #9
1950 Vienna Schönborn Family
E.A. Honig
July 8, 2013

The signature appears on a boat.

A related drawing in Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland; Ertz thinks that this is not a study for the painting but a later copy after it.

Evidently there is a copy that was sold in London (Sotheby's November 25, 1970, #103; panel, 55 x 94) which is by an anonymous follower again according to Ertz; Weid calls it a work by Jan the Younger.
quite good copy on canvas (52.5 x 92.5) Wizowitz, Slot, inv. #1771/1591 (photo RKD)