Jan Brueghel the Elder, known as ‘the Velvet Brueghel’, was the youngest son of the famous painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (his surname is spelled slightly differently). Pieter Bruegel had a great influence on the development of both the panoramic landscape and the enclosed wooded scene with the focus on trees in the foreground. This influence is readily apparent in this drawing by his son, who probably based it upon examples from his father’s estate.
Specifications
| Title | Flooded Stream Valley with Tall Trees |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Pen and brown ink |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 237 mm Width 341 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Jan Brueghel (I)
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| Accession number | N 127 (PK) |
| Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1940 |
| Creation date | in circa 1590-1595 |
| Signature | none |
| Watermark | none (vV, 7P) |
| Inscriptions | 'no 721' (at lower left, in pen and brown ink, partially cut down), 'In Milano 13 Gennaro 15[..]' (at lower right, in pen and brown ink, autograph), 'Brueglo 1593' and 'Janvier' (verso, at upper left, in an old hand on the old paper cadre on which the drawing is attached, in pen and brown ink), '(Ecole flamande) / Paysage de Breugel de Velours (à la Plume) / Le Monograme qui occupe le milieu des Dessin / est celui de mr De Boissieu, a qui il a appartenu. Collection de P. Collin' (verso, at lower right, in pen and brown ink, by P. Collin, L.454), 'ce Dessin est de Pierre Brueghel, dit le Vieux' (verso, at lower right, on the old paper cadre on which the drawing is attached, in pencil) |
| Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
| Mark | C.G. Debesse (L.729), F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a) |
| Provenance | Claude Guillaume Debesse (d. before 1786), Paris; his (†) sale Paris (Boileau), 12 January 1786, lot not found; P. Collin (d. in or before 1832), Paris; (?) his (†) sale, Paris (Paillet), 20-21 February 1832, lot not found; art dealer Nicolaas Beets (1878-1963), Amsterdam, Album V; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem, 1929; on loan to the museum, 1935-1940; purchased with the Koenigs collection by D.G. van Beuningen (1871-1955), Rotterdam and presented to the Stichting Museum Boymans, 1940; on loan to the museum since 1940 |
| Exhibitions | Rotterdam 1934, no. 5 (Jan Brueghel the Elder); Brussels 1935, no. 492; Dijon 1950, no. 45; Rotterdam 1952, no. 22; Berlijn 1975, no. 50 (probably Jan Brueghel the Elder); Essen/Wenen/Antwerpen 1997, no. 150 (Jan Brueghel the Elder); Rotterdam 2004b; Rotterdam 2009 (coll 2 kw 3); Munich 2013, pp. 37-38, ill. 25; Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 73; Antwerp 2019, nr. 11a, ill. (probably 1593) |
| Internal exhibitions |
Het jaar rond met Bol (2004) |
| External exhibitions |
Jan Brueghel I (1568-1625), Een uitmuntend tekenaar (2019) Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2014) Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings (2017) |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | Van Regteren Altena 1932, ill. 28; Winner 1961, pp. 199-201, ill. 8 (‘Meister um 159?’); Arndt 1965/1966, p. 10, no. 4b; Arndt 1972, pp. 110-111, no. K6b (copy after Pieter Bruegel); Winner 1972, pp. 140-141 (Jan Brueghel the Elder); Gerszi 1976b, p. 220; Oberhuber 1981, p. 153; Mielke 1986, p. 84; Boon 1992, p. 77, under no. 46, pp. 78-80, under no. 47; Mielke 1996, p. 17, 43, under no. 22, ill. B.7; Essen/Vienna/Antwerp 1997, pp. 34, 434-435, 436; Wood Ruby 1999, p. 45; Rotterdam/New York 2001, p. 71, ill. 67; www.marquesdescollection.fr, under L.729, suppl. 2010; Munich 2013, pp. 37-38, ill. 25 |
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