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Wooded Landscape with Donkeys and Goats, and Castle on Hill in Distance
Paul Bril · n.d.
Provenance
Ownership history
- Joseph van Haecken (c. 1699–1749), London [stamp (Lugt 2516), recto, lower left, in black]. John Jacob Lindman (1854–1926), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 1479a), recto, lower right, in black]. 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
Exhibition history
- Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussicher Kulturbesitz, Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. Als Zeichner, Sept. 19–Nov. 16, 1975, cat. 46, pp. 46–7, pl. 77, (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.), 291-92, cat. 80, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Literature
Published references
- 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. 5a.
- Frits Lugt, Musée du Louvre, Inventaire Général des Dessins des Ecoles du Nord (Maîtres des Anciens Pays-Bas nés avant 1550) (Paris, 1968), p. 83, under no. 333.
- Karl Arndt, “Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. und die Geschichte der ‘Waldlandschaft’” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 14 (1972), p. 101–103 (ill), no. K3a (as copy after Pieter Bruegel the Elder).
- Matthias Winner, “Neubestimmtes und Unbestimmtes in zeichnerischen Werk von Jan Breughel d. Ä.,” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen XIV (1972), p. 139–140 (as after Jan Bruegel the Elder).
- Hans Mielke, Pieter Bruegel: Die Zeichnungen, Pictura Nova 2 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1996), no. 20, p. 42 (ill. P. 139).
- Teréz Gerszi with the assistance of Bernadett Tóth, The New Ideal of Beauty in the Age of Pieter Bruegel: Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Drawings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (Budapest: Szépmu”vészeti Múzeum, 2012), under cat. No. 28, p. 78 (ill) (as after Pieter Bruegel the Elder).
- Louisa Wood Ruby, “Bruegel/Brueghel/Bril: The ‘Lugt Group’ Revisited,” Master Drawings 50, no. 3, p. 359–60 (ill) (as copy after Pieter Bruegel the Elder).
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