Brueghel Family: Jan Brueghel the Elder
Forest Landscape (Vienna)
Location/Last Sold:
Vienna, Austria, Kunsthistorisches Museum, inv. #1072
Ertz 2008-10, #96
Ertz 1979, #126
Honig database
Our Attribution:
Jan Brueghel the Elder
Object Page at Kunsthistorisches Museum website
Paris, 1809, returned in 1815
1781, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
1781 to 1809 Vienna, Austria Kunsthistorisches Museum
1809 to 1815 Paris, France
1815 Vienna, Austria Returned to Kunsthistorisches Museum
Ertz 1979, cat. #126, fig. 232
Elizabeth Honig
Previous art historians dated this and other related forest landscapes much earlier, to Jan's Italian period; but Ertz dates them to after 1604 because, he says, there are motifs in one work that Jan could only have known from Prague.
Pieter Bruegel Site
To cite this page
"Brueghel Family: Jan Brueghel the Elder." The Brueghel Family Database. University of California, Berkeley. http://janbrueghel.net/ (accessed January 19, 2020).