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Similar painting (118 x 164) from Pieter Bruegel the Elder can be seen in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
Also called 'Shroved Tuesday'.
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History:
J. Mortimer, Aberdeen, 1856; Robert Gowie, Brooklyn, 1867; Amelia R. Lane; Edna F. and Irving P. Lane, Brooklyn Heights, New York; With Mortimer Brandt, New York, 1943; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1946; By whom sold, New York, Parke Bernet, 22 October 1970, lot 31; Acquired at the above sale or shortly afterwards for an American private collection; From whence anonymously sold, New York, Christie's, 31 May 1989, lot 88, where acquired by the present owner for $2,700,000. Auctioned at Sotheby’s in London in december 2011.
Literature:
Magazine of Art, October 1946; H. Swarzenski, "The Battle between Carnival and Lent", in Boston Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, February 1951, p. 9; Advertisement in Apollo, October 1970; K. Demus et al., Flämische Malerei von Jan van Eyck bis Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 1981, p. 67; Trends, 15 June 1989, p. 173, reproduced; K. Ertz et al., Breughel-Brueghel, Pieter Brueghel d. J. - Jan Brueghel d. Ä.: flämische Malerei un 1600, Tradition und Fortschritt, exhibition catalogue, Essen, Villa Hügel, 16 August - 16 November 1997; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 7 December 1997 - 14 April 1998; Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 2 May - 26 May 1998, p. 337, reproduced fig. 2; K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere, Lingen 1988/2000, vol. I, pp. 221, 245, 253-4, 401, cat. no. E.185, reproduced fig. 180.
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