FJK 013

Brueghel Pieter The Elder (Netherlandish, Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels)

Alpine Landscape

1555-1556
9 21/64 × 14 11/64 in. (237 × 360 mm)

Medium
Pen, sepia and grey ink on wove paper

Old inscription hardly legible and dated, bottom right: bruegel 155(?)6
On the reverse, frottage in red chalk with an erased study of steep moutain in ink

Origin

Duke of Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth, no. 1092
Sale, Christie’s, London, Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth, July 3, 1994, no. 50 (under Pieter Bruegel the Old)
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 3906
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

TOLNAY Charles de, “Three Unnoticed Drawings by Pieter Bruegel,” in Old Master Drawings, X, December 1935, pp. 37-39, pl. 38.

TOLNAY Charles de, Die Zeichnungen Pieter Bruegels, Rascher Verlag, Zürich, 1952, no. 19.

MUNZ Ludwig., Bruegel, the Drawings, Complete edition, Phaidon Press, London, 1961, no. 16, verso no. 17, fig. 1.

MIELKE Hans, Pieter Bruegel d.A. als Zeichner, Herkunft und Nachfolge, 1975, see no. 53 (under Vermutlich Roelant Savery).

OBERHUBER Konrad, “Bruegel’s Early Landscape Drawings,” in Master Drawings, 19, 1981, p. 148.

MIELKE Hans, Pieter Bruegel. Probleme seines zeichnerischen œuvresJahrbuch der Berliner Museen, 1991, p. 140.

MIELKE Hans, Pieter Bruegel. Die Zeichnungen, Brepols, 1996, pp. 76-77, no. A.7, ill. p. 203 (under vermutlich Roelant Savery).

Exhibitions

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Prints and Drawings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1961, no. 102.

Manchester, Between Renaissance and Baroque, European Art 1520-1600, 1965, no. 276.

Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, p. 82, no. 34, color ill. p. 83.

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, p. 92, no. 39, color ill. p. 93. 

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 104, no. 36, color ill. p. 105.

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du Dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, p. 96, no. 36, color ill. p. 97.

Rossinière (Switzerland), Foundation Balthus, Balthus.La Magie du paysage, 2006, p. 58, no. 30, color ill. p. 41.

Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2007, p. 88, no. 36, color ill. p. 89.

Notes

According to Hans Mielke, this drawing would be more likely by Roelant Savery (1576-1639). The old attribution to Pieter Bruegel the Elder proffered by Jan Krugier has been kept for now. 

Request for information/loan

The Jan Krugier Foundation is devoted to increasing the impact of the collection of drawings through regular loans to major exhibitions. Loan applications should include a complete presentation of the project.