小彼得·布呂赫爾

柯培男爵購於1925年
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Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Exposition rétrospective du paysage flamand (XVI^e, XVII^e, XVIII^e siècles), 1926, no. 74 ;

Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, 23 February – 12 March 1939 and Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, John G. Johnson Collection, 25 March – 26 April 1939, The Worcester Philadelphia exhibition of Flemish painting, no. 113;

Brussels, Galerie Robert Finck, Trente-trois tableaux de Pierre Brueghel le Jeune dans les collections privées belges, 1969, no. 23;

Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts, Bruegel. Une dynastie de Peintres, 18 September – 18 November 1980, no. 88;

Tokyo, Tobu Museum of Art, The World of Bruegel. The Coppée Collection and Eleven International Museums, 29 March – 25 June 1995, no. B28;

G. Glück, Das große Bruegel-Werk, Vienna and Munich 1963, no. 43, reproduced;

G. Marlier, Pierre Brueghel le Jeune, Brussels 1969, p. 242, no. 3, reproduced fig. 152;

The Worcester Philadelphia exhibition of Flemish painting, exhibition catalogue, Worcester 1939, no. 113;

Paris, Galerie d’Art St. Honoré, 1986–87, p. 18, under cat. no. 6 (cited by Ertz, 1998–2000, below);

S. Leclercq et al., La Collection Coppée, Liège 1991, pp. 63–67, reproduced;

M. Wilmotte, in the catalogue of the exhibition The World of Bruegel. The Coppée Collection and Eleven International Museums, Tokyo 1995, p. 109, no. B28, reproduced;

K. Ertz, in the exhibition catalogue, Breughel–Brueghel, Essen, Kulturstiftung and Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Lingen 1997, p. 383;

K. Ertz, in the exhibition catalogue, Breughel–Brueghel, Essen, Kulturstiftung and Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Lingen 1998, p. 370;

K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere 1564–1637/1638. Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Lingen 1998–2000, vol. I, pp. 578, 581 and vol. II, pp. 605–06, cat. no. E. 687, reproduced;

C. Currie and D. Allart, The Brueg[H]el Phenomenon, Brussels 2012, vol. II, pp. 341–42, 485–523, 928–29, 995–99, 1001, 1007, 1012–13, 1018, 1020, reproduced figs 100, 103, 106, 302, 307, 311–13, 316, 319, 321–22, 325–26, 328, 661, 668.

The following condition report is provided by Sarah Walden who is an external specialist and not an employee of Sotheby's: Pieter Brueghel the Younger. Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap. Signed and dated 1626. This painting is on a fine oak panel in a single piece. It has remained beautifully stable and flat, with a single brief crack at the lower right corner just above the signature. The varnish is mature but still translucent, and probably dates from fairly early in the last century. The beautiful preservation of the paint surface reflects the calm background of the painting with a minimum of intervention over time. The transparency of the fine films of paint has increased naturally giving further luminosity. There is scarcely any sign of retouching, apart from a few narrow lines in the sky to mute one or two old scratches. The varnish is opaque to ultra violet light and there may be a few small old retouches in the foreground ice, with a little also along the extreme outer top edge. The exquisite preservation of the detail is very rare, every interlacing branch and crest of snow along each twig is perfectly intact, as are the finest details of each figure including the delicate little flight into Egypt on the far bank of the river. This report was not done under laboratory conditions.
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彼得·布呂赫爾二世（1564-1637/8年）是荷蘭著名畫家老彼得·布呂赫爾（約1525-1569年）的長子。他幼年喪父，與家人從布魯塞爾搬到安特衛普，並在當地建立起自己名聲響亮的畫室，隨後一生留在此地。包括此作在內，他的不少畫幅都以其父作品為藍本，根據當時複製品的數量推斷，它們極受歡迎。此幅具有畫家簽名的《冬日的捕鳥陷阱》作於1626年，是最知名的冬景圖之一，題目來自於畫面右前方的小陷阱，雖然此作以其隆冬美景和在冰封河道上玩樂的村民而見稱，它更常被冠以另一層引申意義，警戒觀者生命之無常，就像彼得·布呂赫爾所說般，「如履薄冰」。