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Village Landscape with Dancers, Ballad Singers, and Possible Self Portrait

Village Landscape with Dancers, Ballad Singers, and Possible Self Portrait

Object type Painting
Genre Village, Town and Cityscape
Date 1616
Dimensions 25 x 36 cm
Support Copper
Medium Oil
Signature BRUEGHEL FECIT 1616
Our attribution Produced in Jan Brueghel's Studio
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #132
Ertz 1979, #305
Location/Most Recent Sale London, Sotheby's, July 9, 2008, #19 for 3,513,250 GBP
Tags Dancing, Dog, Fish, Horse, Church, House, River, Burghers, Boat, Wagon
Wurzbach1906, p.205
Thiéry 1953, p.176
Ertz 1979, cat. #305, fig. 27
Korthals-Altes 2003, pp. 212-13 (no. 2)
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #132
Brussels 1980, cat. #130
Essen/Vienna 1997-98, cat. #63
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17th century to 18th century Düsseldorf Johann Wilhelm, Elector of the Palatine (located in one of the two Gemäldekabinetten in the Schloß)
17th century to 18th century Düsseldorf His brother Karl III Philipp, Elector of the Palatine
1730 Mannheim Galerie Mannheim
18th century Mannheim His nephew Karl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach Elector of the Palatine and Bavaria
1798 to 1799 Munich
18th century to 19th century Munich His successor, Maximilian IV Joseph, Duke of Zweibrücken and Elector of both the Palatine and Bavaria, and from 1806 King of Bavaria
By 1810 Schleißheim Bavarian Royal Collections
Munich Bavarian Royal Collections
1838 Munich Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek, inv. #205
1883 Munich Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek, inv. #696
1923 Munich Given in exchange to Julius Böhler
Aug 1923 Sankt Gallen Sale to Hans Mettler
Jun 29 1979 London Sale, Christie's, Lot #12
Zürich Gallery David Koetser
1980 Germany Private Collection
E.A. Honig
April 24, 2013

Copy in Turin, Pinacoteca, inv. #216 (copper, 19 x 24). That painting is evidently signed and dated 1608 or 1603. How can this inferior copy carry an earlier date?