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Grain Harvest

Grain Harvest

Object type Painting
Genre Allegory
Date 1614
Dimensions 9.4 x 15 cm
Support Copper
Medium Oil
Signature BRUEGHEL 1614
Our attribution Produced in Jan Brueghel's Studio
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #530
Ertz 1979, #281 as uncertain, possibly studio
Location/Most Recent Sale Unknown, Private Collection
Tags Harvesting, Resting, Horse, Field, Landscape, Wagon
Ertz 1979, cat. #281, fig. 45
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #530, pp. 1103-04
Vlaamse Kunst, Vienna, 1930, #110
Singer Museum, Laren, 1963, #49, fig. 17
P. de Boer, Amsterdam, May 1963, #10
Before 1979 Stockholm Collection of Osborn Kling
19th century to 20th century Stockholm Collection of Einar Perman
Dortmund Collection of H. Becker
E.A. Honig
April 5, 2014

There are numerous larger copies of this tiny work. Two that I reject are Ertz 1979 #s 284 and 285. Another version, not bad (better than 284!) but not genuine, sold Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 28.x.58 #451 (panel, 40 x 60); good photo of that at RKD. It was expertised by Friedländer in 1958 as Jan the Elder. A poor copy in Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, 17 x 28.5 in.
In the present work, a lot of figures are heavily drawn but not very filled in, and the brushwork is not lively. However, in very small works like this it's hard to judge.