Pieter Breughel II, Winter Landscape with Bird Trap

Winter Landscape with Bird Trap, by Pieter Breughel the Younger (1564/1565 - 1637/1638)

Oil on panel. 40.6 x 56.8 cm

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (P.2005-0002). Purchased by the NMWA, 2006. Ex-Matsukata Collection

• 国立西洋美術館 Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan

Provenance

Kojiro Matsukata (from 1920s to ?); Jugo Ginko (The Fifteenth Bank), 1927-28; The 4th Matsukata Sale, Tokyo, 7-24 May 1931, lot 23. repr.; Sotheby's: Old Master Paintings, 27 May 2004, no. 20, New York; De Jonckheere Gallery, Paris/Bruxelles

Exhibitions

• 1931 - The 4th Exhibition of the Matsukata Collection, Tokyo-fu Bijutsukan, 7 May 1931 - 24 May 1931, cat. no. 23, repr.

• 1957 - Ex-Matsukata Collection, Nihonbashi Shirokiya, 9 April 1957 - 28 April 1957, cat. no. 13, repr.

• 2006 - Masterpieces from the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 12 September 2006 - 10 December 2006

Literature

• 1990 - The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1683.

• 2006 - Kofuku, Akira (contributor). San-itsu Brueghel Kikoku. Yomiuri Shimbun. 24 August 2006, Morning edition, p. 17.

• 2006 - Kyu Matsukata Collection, San-itsu Brueghel Kikoku, Chonan no Mosha, Kokuritsu Seiyo Bijutsukan ga Kounyu. Yomiuri Shimbun. 23 August 2006, Evening edition, p. 1.

• 2007 - Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 40 (Apr. 2005-Mar. 2006), 2007, Kofuku, Akira. New Acquisitions. pp. 11-13, List of New Acquisitions. p. 63, repr.

• 2013 - Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 27, col. repr.

Source: Do Smit