Sebastian Vrancx, 1573 Antwerpen – 1647 ebenda, Kreis des TRAVELER AT THE EDGE OF THE VILLAGE Oil on wood. 49 x 64.5 cm. The panels verso with Antwerp stamp. In wide, ornamentally decorated oak frame. Sandy path leading over a gentle hill with wheel tracks of a cart under several different staffage trees, the crowns of which overlap the upper edge of the picture. On the path partly mounted figures, as well as a hunter with his dogs. In the middle distance a village with flowing water. (14014712) (13)

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