
Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Provenance
A Spanish family of title and thence by descent for several generations to the present owner
The figure of the youth in the present composition is by a different hand. Brueghel was known to have collaborated on a number of occasions with Guglielmo Cortese, called Borgognone or Le Bourguignon (1628-1679), in particular. It has also been suggested that he worked with Francesco Solimena (1657-1747) and Paolo de Matteis (1662-1728). In the present work, however, the figure is by a different hand and might best be compared, in terms of both quality and style to Pietro da Cortona (1596/7-1669), suggesting that it could be a relatively early work following Brueghel's move to Rome in 1659.