A landscape with travellers on a road in a village, a windmill nearby

Details

Joseph van Bredael (Antwerp 1688-1739 Paris)
A landscape with travellers on a road in a village, a windmill nearby
signed with initials 'JB' (lower right)
oil on copper
19.5 x 26.5 cm.

Literature

K. Ertz and C. Nitze-Ertz, Josef van Bredael, 1688-1739: die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Lingen, 2006, p. 145 no. E7.

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Lot Essay

This composition largely derives from Jan Breughel I's picture in the Knecht collection, Zurich (see K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere: die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Cologne, 1979, no. 93, figs. 29, 143).

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