Flooded Forest Landscape

General Info

Object Type:

Drawing

Genre:

Landscape

Dimensions:

23.7 x 34.1 cm

Medium:

Medium Remarks:

Pen and brown ink

Support:

Paper

Signature:

"In Milano 13 Gennaro 15[..]"

Signature location:

lower right

Support Marks:

Collector's marks: C.G. Debesse (L.729), F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a)

Further Inscription:

"no 721"; Verso, UR: "Brueglo 1593" and "Janvier"; Verso, "(Ecole flamande) / Paysage de Breugel de Velours (à la Plume) / Le Monograme qui occupe le milieu des Dessin / est celui de mr De Boissieu, a qui il a appartenu. Collection de P. Collin" (P. Collin, L.454); Verso, "ce Dessin est de Pierre Brueghel, dit le Vieux"

Year:

ca. 1590 to ca. 1595

Location/Last Sold:

Rotterdam, Netherlands, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, N 127 (PK)

Attribution

Bailey/Walker cat. #ROTT.MB.1

Our Attribution:

Jan Brueghel the Elder

External Links

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen object page

Provenance

map

Before 1786	Paris, France	Claude Guillaume Debesse
Jan 12 1786	Paris, France	Sale from Debesse to Boileau
Before 1832		Purchased by P. Collin
19th century to 20th century	Amsterdam, Netherlands	Nicolaas Beets (dealer)
1929	Haarlem, Netherlands	Franz W. Koenigs
1935 to 1940	Rotterdam, Netherlands	On loan to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Purchased with the Koenigs collection by D.G. van Benuningen
1940	Rotterdam, Netherlands	On loan to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Additional Information

Bibliography

Regteren Altena 1932, fig. 28

Rotterdam 1934, nr. 5

Brussels 1935, nr. 492

Dijon 1950, nr. 45

Rotterdam 1952, nr. 22

Winner 1961, p. 199-201, fig. 8 (as "Meister of 159")

Arndt 1965-66, p. 10, nr. 4b

Arndt 1972, p. 110-1, nr. K6b (as copy after Pieter Bruegel)

Winner 1972, p. 140-1 (as Jan Brueghel I)

Berlin 1975, p. 48-9, nr. 50, pl. 72 (as after Pieter Bruegel, probably by Jan Brueghel the Elder)

Gerszi 1976, p. 220

Oberhuber 1981, p. 153

Mielke 1986, p. 84

Boon 1992, p. 77, nr. 46, p. 78-80, nr. 47

Mielke 1996, p. 17, 43, nr. 22, fig. B7

Essen/Vienna 1997-98, p. 34, 434-5, 436, nr. 150, ill.

Ruby 1999, p. 45

Rotterdam/New York 2001, p. 71, fig. 67

Rotterdam 2004

Silver 2006a, p. 164, fig. 8.7

Rotterdam 2009

Ruby in Munich 2013, p. 37-8, fig. 25

Regteren Altena 1932, fig. 28

Rotterdam 1934, nr. 5

Brussels 1935, nr. 492

Dijon 1950, nr. 45

Rotterdam 1952, nr. 22

Winner 1961, p. 199-201, fig. 8 (as "Meister of 159")

Arndt 1965, p. 10, nr. 4b

Arndt 1972, p. 110-1, nr. K6b (as copy after Pieter Bruegel)

Winner 1972, p. 140-1 (as Jan Brueghel I)

Gerszi 1976, p. 220

Oberhuber 1981, p. 153

Mielke 1986, p. 84

Boon 1992, p. 77, nr. 46, p. 78-80, nr. 47

Mielke 1996, p. 17, 43, nr. 22, fig. B7

Essen/Vienna 1997-98, p. 34, 434-5, 436, nr. 150, ill.

Ruby 1999, p. 45

Rotterdam/New York 2001, p. 71, fig. 67

Rotterdam 2004

Silver 2006, p. 164, fig. 8.7

Exhibition History

Rotterdam 1934, nr. 5

Brussels 1935, nr. 492

Dijon 1950, nr. 45

Rotterdam 1952, nr. 22

Berlin 1975, nr. 50

Essen/Vienna 1997-98, nr. 150

Rotterdam/New York 2001, fig. 67

Rotterdam 2004

Rotterdam 2009 (coll 2 kw3)

Discussion

2 Comments

Paige Walker

Fri, 2013-10-04 17:00

According to Louisa Wood Ruby, this drawing was inspired by an etching by Hieronymus Cock after a drawing by Pieter I now in Prague. Jan may have owned either/both the drawing & print. The present drawing is inscribed: “In Milano 13 Gennaro 159[3 or 5]”. On the verso, an inscription in a later hand reads: “Brueglo 1593 en Janvier,”. No other document indicates that Jan was in Milan in early 1593. Bedoni & Ruby suggest that Jan could have made such a trip with Borromeo that year.

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Elizabeth Honig

Tue, 2014-08-05 17:00

It is also possible that the date reads 1595 when Jan was definitely in Milan.

This drawing was very influential on the development of the forest landscape. Two copies of it exist -- one in the Fondation Custodia, Paris, and the other in a private collection in New York.

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	Claude Guillaume Debesse (d. before 1786), Paris his (†) sale Paris (Boileau), 12 January 1786, lot not found P. Collin (d. in or before 1832), Paris (?) his (†) sale, Paris (Paillet), 20-21 February 1832, lot not found art dealer Nicolaas Beets (1878-1963), Amsterdam, Album V Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem, 1929 on loan to the museum, 1935-1940 purchased with the Koenigs collection by D.G. van Beuningen (1871-1955), Rotterdam and presented to the Stichting Museum Boymans, 1940 on loan to the museum since 1940

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