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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 4499083, member: 8267"]As others have noted, the original (also known as "Winter landscape with a bird trap") was an oil painting. The image is so popular that it has been reproduced in many media (such as prints) for years. According to Sotheby's, who recently sold a copy painted by a "follower of Pieter Brueghel the Younger", dated 1622:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>"There can be little doubt that the <i>Winter landscape with a bird trap</i> is not only one of the best loved of all the inventions of the Brueghel dynasty, but in its beautiful evocation of a winter’s day also one of the most enduring images in Western art. Although no fewer than 127 versions of the composition have survived, only forty-five are now thought of as autograph works by Pieter Brueghel the Younger himself, with the remainder being largely workshop copies of varying degrees of quality."</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Their catalog description includes additional information about the history of the image:</p><p><a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/old-master-evening-l19033/lot.15.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/old-master-evening-l19033/lot.15.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/old-master-evening-l19033/lot.15.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 4499083, member: 8267"]As others have noted, the original (also known as "Winter landscape with a bird trap") was an oil painting. The image is so popular that it has been reproduced in many media (such as prints) for years. According to Sotheby's, who recently sold a copy painted by a "follower of Pieter Brueghel the Younger", dated 1622: [B]"There can be little doubt that the [I]Winter landscape with a bird trap[/I] is not only one of the best loved of all the inventions of the Brueghel dynasty, but in its beautiful evocation of a winter’s day also one of the most enduring images in Western art. Although no fewer than 127 versions of the composition have survived, only forty-five are now thought of as autograph works by Pieter Brueghel the Younger himself, with the remainder being largely workshop copies of varying degrees of quality." [/B] Their catalog description includes additional information about the history of the image: [URL]https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/old-master-evening-l19033/lot.15.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
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