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Woodland Scene with Stags and Bears

Woodland Scene with Stags and Bears

Object type Drawing
Genre Landscape
Dimensions 34.3 x 25.7 cm
Support Paper
Medium Pen and brown ink
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Bailey/Walker cat. #LOND.BM.18
Location London, England
Collection British Museum
Accession numbers RN 1910,1013.7
Tags Forest
External resources British Museum
Hind 1915, nr. 2 (as Jan Brueghel I)
Winner 1972, p. 97-101, nr. K2 (as a copy after Pieter Bruegel)
Gerszi 1976, p. 220-1, fig. 15 (as Paul Bril after Pieter Bruegel)
Berlin 1975, nr. 43 (as anonymous copy after Pieter Bruegel)
London 1986, nr. 11
London 1973 (British Museum, Netherlandish Prints and Drawings, no cat.)
Berlin 1975, nr. 43
London 1986, nr. 11
18th century to 19th century London Paul Sandby (Lugt 2112)
1910 Purchased from Arthur Melville Champernowne
Paige Walker
August 2, 2013

British Museum website: "Five versions are known of this composition with wild animals, probably all copies after a (now lost) original by Pieter Bruegel. The BM sheet and one in the Fondation Custodia, Paris (inv.no.8025) are qualitatively the best. The Paris sheet has traditionally been attributed to Jan Brueghel the Elder, while the other versions are considered anonymous copies. Three other versions are kept in the Art Institute of Chicago (inv.no.22.1932) and the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv.nos.20724 and 20725)."