Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Brussels 1564 - 1637/8 Antwerp

A yawning Man

Oil on panel, circular, diameter: 6 inches (15.2 cm)

VP5076


Sold to a private collector
Provenance

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 10 July, 1981, no. 29
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 23 April, 1982, no. 82
Private collection, Belgium
Anonymous sale, Artcurial, Paris, 22 November 2023, lot 31


Literature

ERTZ, Klaus, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere – Jan Brueghel der Ältere. Flämische Malerei um 1600. Tradition und Fortschritt, exhib. cat. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 7 December 1997 - 14 April 1998, Lingen, Luca Verlag, p. 367-368, fig.1, repr.
ERTZ, Klaus, Pieter Brueghel le Jeune – Jan Brueghel l’Ancien, une famille de peintres flamands vers 1600, exhib, cat., Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 1 May – 26 July 1998, Lingen, Luca Verlag, p. 348, fig.123a, repr.
ERTZ, Klaus, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere. Die Gemälde mit Kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, vol. II, Lingen, Luca Verlag, 1988/2000, p. 958, repr. p. 770, cat. E1378 p. 961-962
GIBSON, Walter S., Pieter Brueghel and the Art of Laughter, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, California Press, 2006, p. 185, note 88
SILVER, Larry, Peasant Scenes and Landscapes. The rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market, Philadelphia, 2006, p. 299-300, note 66.