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    • Pieter Gysels (Antwerp 1621-16
    Lot 36

    Pieter Gysels (Antwerp 1621-1691)

    A village landscape with a milkmaid, cattle and other figures

    Price realised

    GBP 97,250

    Estimate

    GBP 80,000 - GBP 120,000

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    Pieter Gysels (Antwerp 1621-1691)
    A village landscape with a milkmaid, cattle and other figures
    oil on copper
    11½ x 14 3/8 in. (29.2 x 36.5 cm.)

    Provenance

    Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 17 December 1998, lot 2 (£166,500 to the present owner).

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    Lot Essay

    Houbraken claimed that Pieter Gysels was apprenticed to Jan Breughel the Younger on the basis of an entry in Breughel's diary that described a picture of his that had been retouched by 'Gys'. Whether or not this refers to Gysels is uncertain, although his artistic style and his landscapes in particular reveal a clear debt to Jan Brueghel the Elder. He became a member of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1649/50 and established himself as a painter of small-scale landscapes, of which the present work is a fine example.

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