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A Village Festival, With a Theatrical Performance and a Procession in Honour of St Hubert and St Anthony

Brueghel, Pieter, the younger (painter)

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Title/s

A Village Festival, With a Theatrical Performance and a Procession in Honour of St Hubert and St Anthony

Maker/s

Brueghel, Pieter, the younger (painter) [ULAN info: Flemish artist, c.1564-1637/8]

Category

painting

Name

painting

School/Style

Flemish

Technique Description

oil on panel

Dimensions

height: 118.1 cm
width: 158.4 cm

Date

1632

Provenance

given: Rothermere, Harold 1st Viscount 1927 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints)

Christie's 27 April 1917, anon. sale, (94) bought by Lord Rothermere through Brown and Phillips, The Leicester Galleries

Inscriptions/Marks

  1. signature
    Position: lower right
    Content: P.BREVGHEL.
  2. date
    Position: lower right
    Content: 1632

Documentation

  1. (2005) Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum, London: Scala [page: 46]
  2. Heppner, A. The Popular Theatre of the Rederijkers in the work of Jan Steen and his contemporaries, [page: 32]
    Source title: The Warburg Journal (1939-40)
  3. Gerson, Horst (1960) Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. I, Dutch and Flemish, Cambridge (Cambs.) [page: 16-17]
    [comments: pl. 8]
  4. (1969) Pieter Brueghel, Brussels
    [comments: THIS ENTRY IS NOT ACCURATE: ILLEGIBLE IN FILE ENTRY]

Accession Number

1192 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(Reference Number: 1191; Input Date: 2000-01-18 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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