Landscape with a Fishing Village
Landscape with a Fishing Village
Artist
Jan Brueghel the Elder
Flemish, 1568-1625
Date1604
DimensionsPainting: 14 × 25 3/8 in. (35.6 × 64.5 cm)
Frame: 20 3/4 × 32 1/4 × 2 1/4 in. (52.7 × 81.9 × 5.7 cm)
Frame: 20 3/4 × 32 1/4 × 2 1/4 in. (52.7 × 81.9 × 5.7 cm)
MediumOil on wood panel
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1958.44
On View
Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 22
Collections
Published ReferencesHübner, Julius, Verzeichnis der Königl. Gemälde-Galerie zu Dresden, 1. Aufl. 1856, 5. Aufl. 1880, reprinted 1884, no. 804.
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Woermann, K., Katalog der Königlichen Gemäldegalerie zu Dresden, 1887, no. 879 (called Flussdurchströme Hügellandschaft).
Würzbach, A.V., Niederländische Künstlerlexikon, Leipzig, 1906.
Dresden, Gemäldegalerie, Catalogue of the Pictures in the Royal Gallery at Dresden, 8th ed., 1912, p. 104, no. 879.
Errera, Isabella, Répertoire des Peintures Datées, Brussels, 1920, p. 154 (called Paysage avec Pêcheurs).
Wölfflin, H., Principles of Art History, New York, 194?, p. 213, repr.
Bénézit, E., Documentaire des Peintures, Sculpteurs..., Paris, 1949, vol. 2, p. 167, (called Paysage, Pêcheurs, Poissons). (Undoubtedly, this picture was no longer at the Dresden Gallery in 1949, but Bénézit based his information on existing catalogues.).
Thiéry, Y., Le paysage flamand au XVIIe siècle, Paris, 1953, p. 176 (as Paysage Accidenté; incorrect measurements).
The Art Quarterly, Winter, 1961, "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, July-September, 1961," p. 402.
"Neuerwerbungen des Toledo Museum of Art," Die Weltkunst, vol. 31, no. 24, December 1961, p. 10, repr.
Museum News, New Series, vol. 5, no. 3, Autumn, 1962, p. 61, repr.
"La Chronique des Arts Supplement a La Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1129, Février, 1963, p. 67.
Murray, Peter and Linda, Dictionary of Art and Artist, London, 1965, no. 393, repr. (b&W) p. 327.
Wittmann, Otto, "The Golden Age in the Netherlands," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, Dec. 1967, p. 467, 468, repr. (b&w) fig. 8, p. 470.
Catalogue of European Paintings in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1970, in no. 73.
Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, p. 32, pl. 89,
Kauffman, C.M., Catalogue of Paintings in the Wellington Museum, London, 1982, p. 36.
Flemish paintings in America, Antwerp, 1992, repr. p. 321.
Wheelock, Arthur K., Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, 2005, p. 16, fig. 1.
Silver, Larry, Pieter Bruegel, New York, Abbeville Press Publishers, 2011, ill. 105, p. 121, 125.
"Brueghel Family: Jan Brueghel the Elder." The Brueghel Family Database. University of California, Berkeley, 2016, Link to resource
Toth, Bernadett, Bulletin: du Musee Hongrois des Beaux-Arts, 2014/119, Budapest, MFA Budapest, 2016, p. 128, repr. (col.) fig. 3, p. 128.
Exhibition HistoryEssen, Villa Hügel, Kulturstiftung Ruhr; Vienna, Kunsthistoriches Museum; Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Die flämische Landschaft 1520-1700, 2003-2004, no. 69, p. 187, 198, repr. (col.).Pieter Brueghel the Elder
about 1555-1558
Jan Gossaert, called Mabuse
1521
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