Le MAITRE des GRANDES JARRES (actif en Hollande vers 1630) Peasant crossing a village or the merchant of jars. Oil on panel. On the reverse an old typed label Brouwer. 25,5 x 20,3 cm. Old small trace of horizontal crack on the right. Provenance: Former Julius Samuel Held collection (1905 - 2002). Online bibliography: Wikipedia, Master of the Great Jars (reproduced in color). On the Master of the Larges Jars, active in the circle of Adriaen Brouwer, to whom this painting was previously attributed, one can refer to the work of Gerard Knuttel, who tried to define the personality of the artist and to specify the plastic characters of his style (Cf. Adriaen Brouwer The Master and his Work; p. 29, 31, 176-178 - The Hague 1962). Expert : DUBOIS Patrice