Peeter van Bredael - WIND-MILL AT A VILLAGE
Peeter van Bredael
WIND-MILL AT A VILLAGE
Oil on copper. 14,6 x 19,7 cm.
JB.
An almost identical version of this painting is in the Kunstmuseum Basel and another very similar one in the Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (Ertz, opp. cit. cat. No. E17 and E16). The Montreal painting is monogrammed JB like ours, while the Basel version is unsigned.
Provenance
Brod Gallery, London (as Jan Brueghel the Younger). - Private collection, Germany.
Literature
Klaus Ertz und Christa Nitze-Ertz: Joseph van Bredael 1688-1739. Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Lingen 2006, p. 28 and p. 148, no. E18 (ill.).