Peeter van Bredael - WIND-MILL AT A VILLAGE - image-1

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Peeter van Bredael - WIND-MILL AT A VILLAGE

Auction 995 - overview Cologne
12.05.2012, 00:00 - Old Masters and 19th Centuries Paintings
Estimate: 18.000 € - 22.000 €
Result: 31.720 € (incl. premium)

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.).