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Wooded Landscape with a Family of Bears, Deer, and Other Wild Animals

Wooded Landscape with a Family of Bears, Deer, and Other Wild Animals

Object type Drawing
Genre Landscape
Date 1595
Dimensions 33.9 x 24.4 cm
Support Paper
Medium Pen and brown ink
Signature "Bruegel inuen 1554.Roma"
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Bailey/Walker cat. #PARI.LC.3
Location Paris, France
Collection Fondation Custodia (Collection Frits Lugt)
Accession numbers 8025
Tags Forest, Landscape
Arndt 1965-66, p. 10, nr. 3e
Lugt 1968, p. 84, nr. 334
Arndt 1972, p. 78 ff., 80, 97 ff., 99 ff, nr. K 2e, pl. 12
Winner 1972, p. 140 ff. (as by Jan Brueghel I)
Washington 1974, nr. 40, note 5
Berlin 1975, nr. 42, pl. 73, p. 45 ff. nr. 43-47, 50
Brown 1975b, p. 831
Florence/Paris 1980-81, nr. 44, pl. 45
Oberhuber 1981, p. 154, note 4
London 1986, nr. 35, note 8
Mielke 1986, p. 81 ff.
Robinson in Washington/New York 1986-87, p. 98, nr. 27
Hanschke 1988, p. 50 ff., 180, note 28, pl. 8
Boon 1992, vol. 1, p. 77-8, nr. 46, pl. 78 (vol. 3)
Rotterdam/New York 2001, p. 264, fig. 113
[RUBY IN MUNICH 2013], p. 43-4, fig. 35
Washington 1974, under nr. 40
Berlin 1975, nr. 42
Florence/Paris 1980-81, nr. 44
London 1986, under nr. 35
Washington/New York 1986-87, under nr. 27
19th century London Miss James (d.c. 1891)
Until 1963 London The Misses Alexander
Oct 21 1963 London Their Sale, Sotheby's, Lot #54 (as J. Brueghel I)
20th century Paris Purchased by Frits Lugt (Lugt 1028), Inventory #8025
E.A. Honig
August 1, 2014

There are five versions of this composition attributed with varying degrees of closeness to Jan/circle of Jan. Sellink feels that the present version is the best one. He says that Boon also accepted its attribution to Jan even though he catalogs it as "school of Pieter Bruegel."