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Villagers on Their Way to Market

Villagers on Their Way to Market

Object type Drawing
Genre Urban, Common and Peasant Life
Date 1619
Dimensions 16.8 x 28.4 cm
Support Paper
Medium Pen and brown ink, brush with wash of brown and blue, double lined frame with pen in brown and gold ink
Support marks Museum's mark: MRBAB (Lugt 1834)
Further inscription Verso, "N89 de Vos f. 100"
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Bailey/Walker cat. #BRUS.MR.2
Location Brussels, Belgium
Collection Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
Accession numbers 4060/484
Tags Market, Village, Landscape
External resources Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
Grez 1913, nr. 484
Brussels 1926, nr. 93
Winner 1961, p. 210, pl. 19
Brussels 1961-62, nr. 91
Bergsträsser 1965, p. 260-264
Brussels 1967, nr. 10
Geneva 1969-70, p. 16, nr. 10
Antwerp 1971, nr. 7
Gerszi 1971, p. 30, nr. 30
Manchester 1976, p. 12, nr. 7, pl. 5
Ertz 1979, p.147, fig. 152
Brussels 1926, nr. 93
Brussels 1961-62, nr. 91
Brussels 1967, nr. 10
Geneva 1969-70, nr. 10
Antwerp 1971, nr. 7
Manchester 1976, nr. 7
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19th century Amsterdam Jacob de Vos Jacobsz
May 22 1883 to May 24 1883 Amsterdam Sale by above, Lot #89
19th century to 20th century Brussels Jean de Grez (Lugt 1834)
1913 Brussels Donated to Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique by de Grez
E.A. Honig
March 11, 2014

The landscape, but not the figures, are repeated in a work in the Harold Samuel collection that Sutton catalogued as by a follower of Jan Brueghel: The Road to Market (copper, 24.1 x 31.4); illustrated in Sutton 1992 as cat. #11.

More closely related to Ertz #33, painting now in Wellington Museum. According to Wellington Museum catalogue 1982, there is another version of the drawing, formerly Rudolf collection; Alfred Brod Gallery, Old Master Drawings Jan. 1964, #59 with illustration.