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Res. Katalogtext: Description in Flemish paintings C. 1600-C. 1800 III, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2010, cat.no. 136:

Technical notes: The support consists of a single
piece of plain weave fabric. There are tacking edges
along all four sides which are neither grounded nor
painted. Only fragments of the upper and lower edges
have been preserved. The painting is lined. The ground
consists of a reddish-brown layer that has been applied
evenly and thinly. The ground is partially visible where
the paint layer has been abraded.

This and the following entry (no. 137) are companion
pieces and their closest parallel can be found in a
painting in the Musées des Beaux-Arts in Béziers with
a similar motif and of roughly the same format.1 The
two works belonging to the Nationalmuseum must
have been separated early on and were numbered in
different contexts in the Martelli collection. The attribution
to Jan Miel is, however, a time-honoured one
and merits respect.
GCB

1 31.4 x 39.3, signed and dated 1642. See De Maere and Wabbes 1994, p.
821. [End]

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