Village View

Inscription: At lower center, inscribed "Peter Bruegel" in graphite (by a later hand)

Vendor: E. Parsons & Sons (British), through Roger Eliot Fry

Bierens de Haan, L'oeuvre gravé de Cornelis Cort, 1948, pp. 220-21, no. 6, fig. 61 (illus.)

The Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings of Old Masters: part 3 first series (1905-15). The Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters, London, 1907–1908, cat 14. (as by Pieter Bruegel the Elder), ill.

George Sidney Hellman "Drawings by Dutch and Flemish artists in the Metropolitan Museum" in Print-Collector's Quarterly. vol. 5, December 1915, pp. 390-392 (as by Pieter Bruegel the Elder), ill.

Charles De Tolnay Die Zeichnungen Pieter Bruegels. Munich, 1925, p. 70, no. 3 under "Kleinen Landschaftsfolge".

Arthur Ewart Popham Catalogue of Drawings by Dutch and Flemish Artists in the British Museum: Dutch and Flemish Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries. vol. 5, London, 1932, p. 144, cat. 4 (as by Pieter Bruegel the Elder).

Walter Mehring European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Portfolio of Collotype Reproductions [Vol. 1: Italian Drawings; Vol. 2: Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings; Vol. 3: "New Series": Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3 vols., New York, 1942–44, 1 (also N.S., no. 18.), cat. no. 1 (vol. 2), ill.

Achilles Stubbe Bruegel en de Renaissance: Het Probleem van het Manierisme. 1947, fig. no. S.32, ill.

J. C. J. Bierens de Haan L'oeuvre gravé de Cornelius Cort, graveur hollandais, 1533-1578. The Hague, 1948, cat. 6, p. 220, fig. 61 (as by the artist Cornelis Cort), ill.

Charles De Tolnay The Drawings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. London, 1952, p. 90.

Wolfgang Stechow Dutch Landscape Painting of the 17th Century. London, 1966.

Curtis O. Baer Landscape Drawings. New York, 1969 (?), cat. 37, p. 108 (as by the Master of the Small Landscapes), ill.

H. Gerhard Franz "Niederländische Landschaftsmalerei." Im Zeitalter des Manierismus. 1969, fig. no. 267, p. 219.

Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann "Joos van Liere" Pieter Bruegel und seine Welt. Berlin, 1975, 1979, Appendix 9, p. 20, p. 26, fig. 2 (as by Joos van Liere), ill.

Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Pieter Bruegel d.Ä. als Zeichner. Herkunft und Nachfolge. Berlin, 1975, cat. no. 188, fig. no. 144, p. 141.

Timothy Riggs Hieronymus Cock, printmaker and publisher in Antwerp at the sign of the Four Winds. PhD diss., 1977 cat. j, p. 253 (as by the Master of the Small Landscapes).

Reinhard Liess Die Kleinen Landschaften Pieter Breugels d.Ä. im Lichte seines Gesamtwerks Teil 1: Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch Graz 15-16. vol. 1, Graz, 1979-1980, cat B6, p. 15, fig. 55, 56 (as by an imitator of Pieter Bruegel, possibly Cornelis Cort), ill.

Reinhard Liess Die Kleinen Landschaften Pieter Breugels d.Ä. im Lichte Gesamtwerks. Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch Graz, 3 vols., Graz, 1982, vol. 2, p. 116.

Nadine Orenstein Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2001, cat. 136, pp. 290, 296-299, fig. 136 (as by Master of Small Landscapes), ill.