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Rocky landscape with a castle
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c. 1566-1603
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1525-1569
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Width: 19.2 cm
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Jacob Savery falsified Pieter Bruegel's signature and the date of 1560 in the upper left corner of this sheet in a deliberate attempt to pass this work off as that of the earlier artist. Savery dated a number of similar landscape drawings to the 1560s, a period from which, in fact, no Bruegel landscapes survive.
Examination of the paper used for these drawings revealed that several of them contained watermarks. These are images within the paper itself, inserted by papermakers to distinguish their sheets from those made in other paper mills (see video nearby). Watermarks can therefore reveal information about when and where a particular sheet of paper was made. The watermarks in this group of landscape drawings date from the 1590s onwards - after Bruegel's death - proving these works could not be by him, thus leading to their reattribution to Savery.
Provenance
Exhibition History
Drawings Gallery Display - Bruegel / Not Bruegel, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 16/01/2016-17/04/2016
Literature
no. A 27 on p. 81
as Jacob Savery; in file
Hans Mielke, ‘Reviewed Work(s): L’epoque de Lucas de Leyde et Pierre Bruegel: Dessins des anciens Pays-Bas: Collection Frits Lugt [Exhibition Catalogue] by Karel G. Boon’, Master Drawings, 23/24, 1, 1985-86, pp. 75-90
pp. 77-78
as forgery by Savery; referred to as its plate number in Munz 1961, which is pl. 31
Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 12
in file ...More
de Tolnay, Charles, 'A contribution to Pieter Bruegel the Elder as Draughtsman' in 'Miscellanea J.Q. van Regteren Altena', Amsterdam 1969
p. 62
Münz, Ludwig, Bruegel: the drawings, London 1961
no. 32 on p. 212 and p. 18
pl. 31
van Gelder, J.G., 'Pieter Bruegel: "Na(e)r het leven'" in ' Bulletin Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts/Bulletin Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten', 1960 - pp. 29-36; 9
p. 32, note 6
Seilern, Count Antoine, Flemish paintings & drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW 7, London 1955; I
no. 12
pl. XXIX
as Bruegel, dated 1560
de Tolnay, Charles, The drawings of Pieter Bruegel the elder: with a critical catalogue, London 1952
no. 26 on p. 61
ill.
as autograph Bruegel but "probably it is only a copy"
de Tolnay, Charles, Die Zeichnungen Pieter Bruegels, Munich 1925
pp. 73 and 89, no. 85
ill.
as not Bruegel
Frederik Muller et Cie., Amsterdam, Dessins anciens E.A. des collections Heseltine et Richter de Londres, 27-28 May 1913
lot 70
as Bruegel; in file ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: upper left corner, brown ink, false signature and date (same on PG.316): "P. BRVEGEL 1560".
Collector's mark: none.
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