Landscape with Figures

This painting was formerly attributed to Jan Miel due to possible traces of a monogram JM, but this seems to have been a misreading of meaningless brushstrokes. Kren rejected the attribution to Miel proposing that to Goubau. Trezzani rejected the attribution to Goubau, suggesting analogies with the work of Bourdon (q.v.) and the Master of the Small Trades. DPG20 might also be the work of Jacob van Staveren, as P. Sutton proposed (letter on file, 1990), dating a comparable composition sold as Van Staveren at Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 22 May 1989 (lot 1). Kren maintains the attribution to Goubau (letter on file, 1997).