Adriaen van Stalbemt

Private collection, Paris, by 1953 (as Jan Brueghel the Elder);

With Alfred Brod, London, 1963 (as Jan Brueghel the Elder);

Henri Leroux, Versailles;

His sale, Paris, Musée Galliéra, 23 March 1968, lot 29 (as Attributed to Jan Brueghel the Elder);

With Douwes, Amsterdam;

From whom acquired by a private collector, Holland, 1993;

By whose estate sold, ("The property from a deceased Dutch private collector"), Amsterdam, Christie's, 26 November 2014, lot 7 (as Stalbemt);

Where acquired.

Paris, Galerie Heim-Gairac, Exposition de Paysages Flamands: Herri met de Bles à Jan Breughel, 18 April - 15 May, 1953, no. 9 (loaned from a private collection).

Exposition de Paysages Flamands: Herri met de Bles à Jan Breughel, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1953, p. 13, cat. no. 9 (as Jan Brueghel the Elder);

K. Ertz, Adriaen van Stalbemt 1580-1662: Kritischer Katalog der Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, Lingen 2018, p. 297, cat. no. 102, reproduced (as Stalbemt).

Painted by the early seventeenth-century Flemish landscape specialist Adriaen van Stalbemt, this gently receding landscape is enlivened by scenes of leisure and rural labor, harvesting, walking, and tending to animals, motifs traditionally associated with the season’s abundance. The windmill, village buildings, and dispersed figures function as emblematic signs of agricultural productivity and seasonal order. Stalbemt’s jewel-like palette, intensified by the copper support, and his cool, silvery tonality situate the work firmly within the tradition of early seventeenth-century Antwerp landscape painting.