A mountainous landscape

Details

Attributed to Gillis Neyts (Ghent 1623-circa 1687)
A mountainous landscape
pen and brown ink, watercolor
9¾ x 15 7/8 in. (24.8 x 40.5 cm.)

Provenance

W.H. Jarv Wegg, London;
probably anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 23 April 1941, lot 44.
with F.A. Drey, London.
with H.M. Calmann, London.
C.R. Rudolf (L. 2811b), by 1962; Sotheby's Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 18 April 1977, lot 42 (as Neyts).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 1 December 1986, lot 35 (as Neyts).

Literature

K.G. Boons, The Netherlandish and German drawings of the XVth and XVIth centuries of the Frits Lugt collection, Paris, 1992, p. 371, under no. 209, nt. 17 (as not by Neyts).
P. Gustot, Gillis Neyts; un paysagiste Brabançon en vallée mosane au XVIIe siècle, Namur, 2008, pp. 259-60, no. DA16 (as uncertain attribution).

Exhibited

London, Arts Council Gallery and elsewhere, Old Master Drawings from the collection of Mr. C.R. Rudolf, 1962, no. 142 (as Lucas van Uden).

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Lot Essay

This drawing has in the past been attributed to Lucas van Uden (1595-1672), as it is similar in tonality and panoramic viewpoint to works by that artist. In the 1977 sale, it was catalogued as Gillis Neyts. Gustot (op. cit., pp. 259-60) compares the present sheet to a signed one by Neyts in Berlin - especially in the treatment of the leaves and trees (Gustot, op. cit., no. D245). Peter Schatborn also supports an attribution to Neyts.

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