A wooded river landscape with travellers and a faggot gatherer

Details

Attributed to Gijsbrecht Leytens (Antwerp 1586-c. 1650)
A wooded river landscape with travellers and a faggot gatherer
oil on panel
24 x 34.8 cm.

Provenance

J.B. du Sart; sale, Brussels, 26 June 1884, lot 86, as Alexander Keirincx.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 11 May 1994, lot 39, as attributed to Gijsbrecht Leytens.

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Lot Essay

The attribution is based on comparison with the signed picture that was with Malmedé, Cologne, 1936 (see P.F.J.J. Reelick, 'Bijdrage tot Identificatie van de Meester der Winterlandschappen, (G. Leytens ?)', in Oud Holland, LIX, 1942, p. 79, no. 16) and with a landscape in the Herzog Anton-Ulrich Museum in Brunswick (ibid., p. 78, no. 1, fig. 7).

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