Landscape with Figures and Horses in the Foreground

Prints and Drawings

1638/87

Gillis Neyts
Flemish, 1623-1687

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Gillis Neyts
Title: Landscape with Figures and Horses in the Foreground
Place: Flanders (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1643–1687
Medium: Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "g.nyts.f."; verso, upper left, in graphite: “59572"; lower left, in graphite: “G. Nyts”
Dimensions: 14.1 × 10.6 cm (5 9/16 × 4 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Julius Lewis
Reference Number: 1989.165
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Pierre Gustot, Gillis Neyts: Un paysagiste Brabançon en vallée Mosane au XVIIe siècle (Namur: Musée des arts anciens du Namurois, 2008), D88, p. 176.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 29 (ill.), 30, 306, 334, cat. 4, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Dr. Edward Peart (1756 or 58–1824), London and Butterwick [inscribed (Lugt 892), recto, lower left, in black]. Probably Dr. Curt Otto (1880–1929), Leipzig; sold, Boerner, Leipzig, Nov. 7, 1929, lot 107. Sold, Sotheby’s 14 November 1988, lot 26. Sold by Bob P. Haboldt, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

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