The Visit at the Leasehold Farm
around 1597 | Jan Brueghel d. Ä.
Here the son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jan Brueghel the Elder, picks up the thread of one of his father’s compositions: a landlord visiting a tenant. On the right are the landlord and his wife, dressed in the style favoured by Antwerp’s patricians; the clothes worn by their servants on the right also differ from the peasants’ more colourful and less elaborate attire. The landlord’s gift is a sugar loaf, probably intended to mark the birth of the youngest child, who the mother is keeping warm by the fire on the left.
Here the son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jan Brueghel the Elder, picks up the thread of one of his father’s compositions: a landlord visiting a tenant. On the right are the landlord and his wife, dressed in the style favoured by Antwerp’s patricians; the clothes worn by their servants on the right also differ from the peasants’ more colourful and less elaborate attire. The landlord’s gift is a sugar loaf, probably intended to mark the birth of the youngest child, who the mother is keeping warm by the fire on the left.
Artist:
Jan Brueghel d. Ä. (1568 Brüssel - 1625 Antwerpen) DNB
Time:
around 1597
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Netherlandish; Flemish
Material/technology:
copper
Dimensions:
27 x 36 cm
Framed: 36,3 cm x 45,2 cm x 5,3 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 674
Provenance
1747/1748 in the treasury; documented 1781 in the gallery;
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