Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed (right, on window): ·P·BREVGHE[L]
Notes The panel has been cradled.
Provenance ?Grazioso Enea Lanfranconi, Pressburg, Hungary (until 1895; his sale, J. M. Heberle, Cologne, October 21, 1895, no. 20, as "Flemish Children's Holiday," by Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Gustav Ritter Hoschek von Mühlheim, Prague (by 1907–d. 1908; cat., 1907, no. 15; his estate sale, G. Pisko, Vienna, March 24, 1909, no. 9, as "Feast of the Rosary"); Aaron Naumburg, New York; [Ehrich Galleries, New York, by 1925–1927/32; sale, American Art Association, New York, November 3, 1927, no. 71, as "Children's Party," for $625 to Quackenbush, or bought in and sold to Quackenbush by 1932]; George Gilbert Quackenbush, New York (from 1927/32; his estate, until 1939)
References Wilhelm Martin. Galerie Gustav Ritter Hoschek von Mühlheim in Prag . Prague, 1907, pp. 10–11, no. 15, pl. 15, questions the signature.Lexikon der Wiener Gemäldesammlungen . 2, Munich, 1914, p. 220, attributes it to Vinckeboons, and considers the signature old but false.in De Helsche en de Fluweelen Brueghel en hun invloed op de kunst in de Nederlanden . Exh. cat., Kunsthandel P. de Boer. Amsterdam, 1934, p. 8, as a signed work by Pieter Brueghel II.in Die Jüngeren Brueghel und ihr Kreis . Exh. cat., Palais Pallavicini. Vienna, 1935, p. 7, as a signed work by Pieter Brueghel II.Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 34 (April 1939), pp. 88–90, ill., as a signed work by Pieter Brueghel II.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Early Flemish, Dutch and German Paintings . New York, 1947, pp. 162–63, ill., as a signed work by Pieter Brueghel II.Pierre Brueghel le Jeune . Brussels, 1969, p. 370, no. 2, as a signed work by Pieter Brueghel II.Flemish Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York, 1984, vol. 1, pp. 25–27; vol. 2, pl. 14, observes that "notwithstanding the picture's poor condition, one may confidently recognize the hand of Pieter II, himself".Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere (1564–1637/38): Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog . Lingen, Germany, 1988/2000, vol. 2, p. 764, no. 1043, as a replica of the version in Dessau.Ars 40, no. 1 (2007), p. 58, fig. 3.
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