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The Drunk Cast into the Pigsty

The Drunk Cast into the Pigsty

Object type Painting
Genre Proverb
Date 1557
Support Panel
Medium Oil
Signature BRUEG ... M.D.L.VII
Signature location Signature indistinct, partly visible only under X-ray
Attribution authorities Sellink, cat. #62: problematic, but accepted.
Location/Most Recent Sale Christie's, London, 10 July 2002, no. 37
General Notes Recently assigned to Bruegel
Tags Fortune, Swine
External resources Christie's sale page
Van Schoute/ Verougstraete 2000
Avery-Squash 2001
Marijnissen 2003
Bianconi, Tout l'oeœuvre peint de Bruegel l'Ancien, Paris, 1981, p. 110, no. 72, as a lost work known from the engraving
J. de Coo 1975, pp. 103-4, fig. 57, as Pieter Bruegel I (?)
'Bruegel the Elder The Drunkard being Pushed into the Pigsty', The National Gallery Review, April 2000-March 2001, London, 2001, p. 20
S. Avery-Quash, 'Découverte d'une oeœuvre de Brueghel l'Ancien', L'Estampille/L'Objet d'Art, 359, June 2001, pp. 60-5
London, National Gallery, 2000-01, inv. no. L919, on loan.
1769 to 1827 Herkenbosch Collected by Chevalier Jean-Charles van der Renne de Daelenbroeck
1878 to 1949 Herkenbosch Left to Cecile van der Renne de Daelenbroeck
Left to St Andre lez Bruges
Jul 10 2002 Auction at Christie's, no. 37