Wide Landscape with Wagon and Travelers (Cologne)
Object type | Painting |
Genre | Landscape |
Date | 1608 |
Dimensions | 17.5 x 27.2 cm |
Support | Copper |
Medium | Oil |
Signature | BRUEGHEL 1608 |
Our attribution | Produced in Jan Brueghel's Studio |
Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, Add. 14 |
Location/Most Recent Sale | Cologne, Lempertz, 11 November 2010, lot #1034 |
Tags | Traveling, Horse, Wagon |
Two copies are illustrated by Ertz 2008-10, p. 1647. One truly terrible one is in Koblenz as attributed to Christoffel van den Berghe (copper, 17.5 x 26.7); the other is in Orleans, Musee d'Orleans, and Ertz calls it Jan the Younger (copper, 27.4 x 34.9). The museum at Orleans calls it "studio of Jan the Elder."
Image on Lempertz website is very poor but way that figures are carefully arranged so that artist did not have to paint faces makes me sure this is not an autograph work. It's barely even from his studio. Colors are muddy, figures lumpen.