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Catalogue raisonné: Description in Flemish paintings C. 1600-C. 1800 III, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2010, cat.no. 50: 

Technical notes: The slightly convex oak panel consists
of a single radial board with a vertical grain. The
panel has been thinned. The original oval panel has been
fashioned into a rectangular format through the addition
of triangular wood inserts (poplar) at the four corners.
The panel has been reinforced on the back with square
pieces of wood at the corners and thin wood strips
attached to the beveled edges (those on the top and bottom
are lost). The top and bottom edges have been
slightly trimmed. Exposed worm tunnels are visible on
the back, concentrated to a “moon ring” vertically at
right of centre. Dendrochronological examination and
analysis have determined a felling date for the tree
between c. 1614 and 1624. The wood originates from the
Baltic region. Under the assumption of a median of 15
sapwood rings and a minimum of 2 years for seasoning of
the wood, the most plausible date for use of the panel
would be 1622 or later

Paint is applied over an off-white ground in thin,
opaque and translucent layers with low, fine brushmarking...
The ground is visible through areas of moderate
abrasion in the sky. Examination of the painting with
infrared reflectography revealed fairly extensive underdrawing
in a dry medium, a quickly executed sketch,
more agitated and oblique than the final composition.
Repaint covers the attached pieces of wood at the four
corners of the panel. Scattered small losses of paint have
been retouched, Abrasion is moderate throughout. An
aged varnish layer is present. The painting underwent
conservation treatment in 1986.

Provenance: Transferred in 1984.

Bibliography: NM Bulletin 9, no. 1 (1985), p. 6; NM
Cat. 1990, p. 59 (as manner of Jan Brueghel I).
This painting is a faithful early, probably 17th-century,
copy of an original, signed and dated 16[4]1, now in a
private collection (formerly Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen,
Gemäldegalerie), which Ertz attributed
to Jan Brueghel II.1 Another copy, according to
Ertz an autograph replica, is at Rhede, Coll. Fürst zu
Salm-Salm.2 The painting is signed in monogram, but
it has not been possible to identify the artist who
painted the copy. This small, unassuming genre scene,
showing a peasant leading his horses away from a village
inn, is closely related to the work of Jan Brueghel
I. Indeed, each single motif, the inn, the carts left outside,
the horses being led away, might be derived from
one of the artist’s many outdoor genre scenes, such as
the Village Street of 1603 (Zürich, priv. coll.) or the
many drawings and paintings of contemporary Flemish
village life produced between 1605 and 1615.
CF

1 Oil on wood, circular panel, 18 cm in diameter, formerly in Dresden,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Gemäldegalerie, inv. no. 906; for which see
Dresden Cat. 1902, p. 295; Ebert 1963, pp. 74–75, no. 906; and Ertz
1984, p. 34, cat. no. 77, colour pl. 17.
2 Oil on wood, circular panel, 18.5 cm in diameter, Rhede, Coll. Fürst zu
Salm-Salm; for which see Ertz 1984, cat. no. 78, illus.[End]

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