File:Saint John the Baptist Preaching to the Masses in the Wilderness oil on oak panel by Pieter Brueghel the Younger.jpg

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Pieter Brueghel the Younger: Saint John the Baptist Preaching to the Masses in the Wilderness  wikidata:Q119701478 reasonator:Q119701478
Artist
Pieter Brueghel the Younger  (1564–1638)  wikidata:Q255828
 
Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Alternative names
Pieter Brueghel , Pieter Breugel (II), Pieter Breughel (II), Pieter Bruegel (II), Hell Brueghel
Description Flemish painter and drawer
Date of birth/death between 23 May 1564 and 10 October 1564
date QS:P,+1564-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1564-05-23T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1564-10-10T00:00:00Z/11
 Spring 1638
date QS:P,+1638-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P4241,Q40720559
Location of birth/death City of Brussels Antwerp
Work period 1579–1638
Work location
Antwerp Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q255828
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Title
Saint John the Baptist Preaching to the Masses in the Wilderness
label QS:Len,"Saint John the Baptist Preaching to the Masses in the Wilderness"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date Unknown date
Medium oil on oak wood
Dimensions height: 91.1 cm (35.8 in); width: 140.5 cm (55.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,91.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,140.5U174728
Object history
  • Probably Baron de Blommaert collection
  • Probably Zachary collection;1
  • Churchill-Longman collection, before 1953
  • Probably with Leonard Koetser, London, 1955, and certainly with him in 1958
  • Acquired from the above by a private collector
  • By whom anonymously sold ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Christie's, 12 December 1986, lot 4a
  • Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), New York, Christie's, 3 June 1987, lot 102
  • With Johnny van Haeften, London, 1988, no. 4
  • With Galerie de Jonckheere, Paris, 1989, no. 7, from whom acquired by the last owner
Source/Photographer Sotheby's London, 4 July 2012, lot 15

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