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29 September 2010 Last updated at 14:13

Appeal launched to save Brueghel

The Art Fund and National Trust have launched a 拢2.7m campaign to save a painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger. The Procession to Calvary has hung at the Nostell Priory in Yorkshire for over 200 years. This gallery looks at the painting in detail.

The painting, owned by Lord St Oswald, has been put up for sale. The campaign has been launched with a 拢500,000 Art Fund donation. Completed in 1602, the painting shows Christ carrying the cross on the way to his crucifixion surrounded by some 200 people.

The Procession to Calvary at Nostell Priory is signed and dated P. BRVEGEL/1602. It is one of only five versions of this painting that are signed and dated by Brueghel the Younger. The earliest (1599) has been in the Uffizi, Florence since before 1686.

The painting includes a host of carefully observed individual portraits: religious figures, peasants, children, animals, gentry and soldiers. Here, two children sit on the hillside, watching the procession.

Set apart from the main action on a mound overlooking the procession are four women - the Virgin Mary and her three companions: Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and Mary Salome.

The painting will be displayed in London's National Gallery from 5 October-9 November 2010, and then at the York Art Gallery from 18 November until Christmas. It is hoped that the remaining 拢2.2m can be raised by then.

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