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| Title | Going to Market | |
| Alternative Title | Landscape with Travellers | |
| Collection | Victoria Art Gallery, Bath | |
| Artist | Circle of Brueghel, Jan, the elder (Flemish painter, draftsman, 1568-1625) Previously attributed to school of Brueghel family (Flemish painters, 16th-17th centuries) Previously attributed to school of Brueghel, Jan, the elder (Flemish painter, draftsman, 1568-1625) Previously attributed to Bril, Paul (Flemish landscapist and fresco painter, 1554-1626, active in Rome) Previously attributed to Flemish School |
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| Date Earliest | probably about 1600 | |
| Date Latest | probably about 1700 | |
| Description | The foreground of this tiny landscape describes a hilltop with a pair of tall trees dominating the centre-left of the composition. Foreground details include a couple of resting figures, a pair of horses, one pulling a laden cart, figures making their way along a track carrying sacks, and a woman walking with a basket on her head. In the distance, more figures travel along the road. The middle and far distance comprise an undulating landscape, with a few scattered buildings, bluish with atmospheric perspective. | |
| Current Accession Number | BATVG:P:1934.3 | |
| Subject | landscape; figure; animal (horse) | |
| Measurements | 19.3 x 24.7 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on metal (copper) | |
| Acquisition Details | Bequeathed by Mr E. Newton Fuller 1934. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | Renaissance to Baroque 1520-1720: Treasure from Bristol and Bath Museums, Holburne of Menstrie Museum, Bath, 1981; Dutch Landscape Painting, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, 1983. | |
| Publications | Renaissance to Baroque 1520-1720: Treasure from Bristol and Bath Museums, Holburne of Menstrie Museum, Bath, 1981, p. 7 (as Paul Bril); Wright, C., Old Master Paintings in Britain: An Index of Continental Old Master Paintings executed before c.1800 in Public Collections in the United Kingdom, London, 1976, p. 26 (as Paul Bril); Wright, C., Dutch Landscape Painting, Newcastle, 1983, pp. 16-17 (as Flemish School, c. 1600); Sloman, S., Victoria Art Gallery: Concise Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings, Bath, 1991, p. 39, (as Flemish School, seventeenth century). | |
| Notes | This a variant of Jan Brueghel's Going to Market (1603, 18.5 x 25.5 cm, Kunsthistorishes Museum, Vienna, inv. 6328). The Victoria Art Gallery painting is similar to the Kunsthistorisches version in its dimensions and copper support, although slight changes in detail include the stance and baskets of the woman in the centre-right foreground. A number of other replicas and variants exist. Mr Newton Fuller's bequest included four further works. The present painting is mentioned in a letter dated 17 January 1934 to the town clerk from solicitors acting on behalf of the deceased's executors, which lists the five works in the bequest, including: ‘(2) [Landscape] on copper by Breughel'. |
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| Rights Owner | Victoria Art Gallery, Bath | |
| Author | Dr Susan Steer | |