VP4090

Pieter Gysels
(1621 – Antwerp – 1690)

A Townscape with Figures working in Bleaching Fields in the foreground

On copper – 8 7/8 x 12 7/16 in, (22.6 x 31.6 cm)

Provenance:

• R. H. van Schaik, Wassenaar, 1934 (as Jan Brueghel I)
• Sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 29-30 June 1939 (as Jan Brueghel I)
• Mossel Sale, Muller, Amsterdam 11-18 March, 1952 (as Jan Brueghel I)

Literature:

• Peter Sutton, exh. cat. The Age of Rubens, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Sept 1993 to January 1994; Toledo Museum of Art, Feb 1994 to April 1994, p. 476, illustr.

Exhibited:

• P. de Boer, De Helsche en de Fluweelen Brueghel, Amsterdam, Feb-March 1934, no. 71 (as Jan Brueghel I)