Oil on copper: 27 x 36 cm. A copy by Jan Brueghel the elder of a now lost original by his father Pieter Bruegel. The Frits Lugt Collection in Paris still holds a grisaille drawing attributed to Pieter Bruegel, dated 1567 and titled 'Visit to the Tenant Farmer' (Fondation Custodia, Paris). In Antwerp lies another grisaille panel by Jan Brueghel the elder, titled 'Visit to the Peasants' (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp). Yet another oil on wood panel copy in The Holburne Museum/ UK by Pieter Brueghel the younger (son of Pieter Bruegel, and brother of Jan Brueghel the elder), dated ca. 1620 and titled ‘The Visit of the Godfather’. It was initially thought that the scene depicted a visit by a rich foster father to a newly born godchild, but it is now believed to represent a maternity visit by a landlord to his tenants.
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