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Catalogue raisonné: Description in Flemish paintings C. 1600-C. 1800 III, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2010, cat.no. 29: 

Technical notes: The support consists of a single
piece of loosely woven plain weave fabric. There are
tacking edges on all four sides. The painting has been
lined and mounted on a strainer later converted to a
wedge stretcher.

The canvas has been prepared with a thickly applied
light brown ground that has been covered with an
opaque darker brown imprimatura. The imprimatura is
visible along all the sides on the tacking edges. The
palette consists of earth colours as well as layers of blue,
green and yellow lakes that have partly faded. The figures
are painted directly on to the foreground. The execution
of the animals is more assured than in the human
figures. The crowns of the trees have been painted
directly on to the sky. The figures, which were painted
thinly, have become transparent with age.

Label glued to lining canvas: “Royal Museum, P. van
Bredael, Landscape, No. 228”. The painting underwent
conservation treatment in 1998.

Provenance: Coll. Suther; Gustav III 1792, no. 184;
KM 1795, no. 190; KM 1816, no. 228.

Bibliography: Sander II, p. 119, no. 184 (as Peeter van
Bredael); Göthe 1887, pp. 29–30; Göthe 1893, p. 37;
Granberg 1931, p. 24, no. 184; NM Cat. 1958, p. 26;
Thiéry-Meerendre 1987, p. 236, no. 15 (as copy); NM
Cat. 1990, p. 50.

Companion piece to the following entry (no. 30).
Salerno discussing Bredael mentions that he comes
very close to Antoon Goubau and that he returned
repeatedly to the subject of the Roman market scene,
set among the ruins, with an abundance of figures and
details.1 He finds the quality of his paintings rather
moderate with the general intonation a little dull.
Accents of vivid colour, however, reveal his Flemish
temperament. Thiery-Meerendre, who produced an
inventory of Peter Bredael’s works in 1987, lists this
work and its companion piece, no. 30, but describes
them as copies. Both depict a market scene in a landscape
with buildings and ruins that is full of cattle and
numerous figures involved in different activities. In
the foreground there is a party with many dancers.
Here Bredael combines portrayal of peasant life in the
Flemish tradition with a hilly landscape that recalls
Italian vedute.
GCB
1 Salerno 1977, pp. 610–611. [End]

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