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Catalogue raisonné: Description in Flemish paintings C. 1600-C. 1800 III, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2010, cat.no. 52:


Technical notes: The oak panel (±0.5–0.8 cm thick)
consists of a single radial board with horizontal grain.
Bevelling along four edges on the back. Worm holes visible
near bottom centre. Dendrochronology has determined
a felling date between c. 1586 and 1596, with the
most plausible date being 1592. The wood originates
from the Baltic region.
Paint is applied over a thick off-white ground in thin,
opaque and translucent layers with minimal brush marking.
The figures appear to be painted on top of the background.
Scattered small losses, wear and abrasion along
the bottom and left edges, in the lower right corner and
in the foliage at the upper right. An aged varnish layer is
present.
Provenance. Coll. Sack Bergshammar; Gustav III
1792, no. 329 (?); KM 1795, no. 111, (as Pieter Brueghel
II); KM 1816, no. 756.

Bibliography: NM Cat. 1867, p. 25; Sander II, p. 128,
no. 329; Sander IV, p. 99, no. 756, (as Pieter Breugel
d’Enfer (II)); Göthe 1887, pp. 35–36; Göthe 1893, p. 44;
NM Cat. 1958, p. 31, (as the manner of Jan Brueghel I);
NM Cat. 1990, p. 59, (as the manner of Jan Brueghel I).

The painting depicts a landscape with buildings. In
the foreground a horseman in a red knitted garment is
riding a brown horse. He is leading another yellow
horse and meets a woman, a man and a boy walking
towards him, while in the distance several figures and
animals can be seen, as well as buildings. Göthe (1893)
states that the painting was probably acquired by Gustav
III from the Sacks collection and Sander describes
it as a work by Pieter Brueghel II. In the museum’s catalogues
from 1958 and 1990 it has been listed under
the name of Jan Brueghel I. Because of the old-fashioned
characteristics of the landscape with its layered
and rather billowing fields it would be more correct to
follow Sanders in attributing it to Pieter Brueghel II
or one of his followers.
GCB
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