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Forest Landscape with Wild Animals

Pieter Bruegel, the elder · late 16th century

Provenance

Ownership history

Paul Sandby (1725–1809), London [blind stamp (Lugt 2112), recto, lower right]. Arthur Melville Champernowne (1871–1946), Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon [inscription (Lugt 153), recto, lower left on mount, in black]; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Apr. 26–27 1911, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower center, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center, in black].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussicher Kulturbesitz, Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. Als Zeichner, Sept. 19–Nov. 16, 1975, cat. 45, p. 46, pl. 76, (as after Pieter Bruegel).
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 226-27, 229 (ill.), 292, cat. 79, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Literature

Frits Lugt, Musée du Louvre, Inventaire Général des Dessins des Ecoles du Nord (Maîtres des Anciens Pays-Bas nés avant 1550) (Paris, 1968), p. 84, under no. 334.
Karl Arndt, “Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. Als Vorläufer Coninxloos,” Bermerkungen zur Geschichte der Waldlandschaft,” Kunstgeschichtliche Gesellschaft zu Berlin, Sitzungsberichte N.F. 14 (1965/66), p. 10, no. 3d.
Karl Arndt, “Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. und die Geschichte der ‘Waldlandschaft’” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 14 (1972), p. 99. No. K2d (as copy after Pieter Bruegel the Elder).
L'Époque des Lucas de Leyde et Pierre Bruegel: Dessins des Anciens (Paris, 1981), p. 64, in notes under cat. no. 44 (as copy after Pieter Bruegel the Elder).
Victoria Sancho Lobis, "Landscape and Authography," in Landscape and Earth in Early Modernity: Picturing Unruly Nature, C. Göttler and M. M. Mochizuki (eds) (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023), fig. 2.4.

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