c. 1650
Oil on canvas, 90 x 104 cm
Private collection
Although this painting was formely believed to be an Italian landscape, it was identified as a view of Lyon with a distant view of Fort Saint-Jean and the Chateau de Pierre-Seize. Lyon was probably the French city most frequently painted by Netherlandish artists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. One of the earliest of these may have been Pieter Brueghel the Elder.
