RECENT AND ONGOING PROJECTS

• Services provided

  Authentication, appraisal, condition report, proposal for restoration, collection management advice

• Painter

  P. Brueghel II

• Title of painting

  Winter landscape with skaters and bird trap

• Date

  1560 – 1570

• Location of painting

  Switzerland

• Type of owner

  Private collector

• Project status

  First phase completed

• Restoration

  An initial examination was undertaken in order to establish the condition of the painting, its authenticity, and provide advice on immediate preventive conservation treatments. Furthermore, proposals were made involving minimal restoration interventions to prepare the painting for future exhibitions and loans.

The ¨Winter landscape with bird trap¨ is considered to be one of the most famous images of winter. The composition features a frozen river winding its way through a snow-clad Brabant village, set against a winter landscape with trees. Figures of old and young are shown going about their business on the frozen banks of the river, and yet the peaceful harmony of existence is tarnished by the presence of a bird trap in the foreground of the painting.

• Detail of a house and tree

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• Detail of a bird and a brushstroke in the ground layer

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• Bird trap

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• Addition to the original panel below

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