GILLIS NEYTS | A LANDSCAPE WITH THE RUINS OF CÉSAR CASTLE AT VAULX-LEZ-TOURNAI

Possibly sale, Brussels, Galerie Fievez, 16 June 1931, lot 114;

Possibly sale, Brussels, Galerie Fievez, 27–28 April 1934, lot 391;

M. Try-Reiss;

His sale, London, Robinson & Fisher, 10 March 1938, lot 79;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 26 March 1965, lot 80;

With Silvano Lodi, Munich, 1965;

Lucerne art market, 1969;

F.C. Butôt, Sankt Gilgen, Austria, by 1972;

His posthumous sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 16 November 1993, lot 10, when acquired.

Salzburg, Museumpavillon im Mirabellgarten, 12 July – 12 September 1972; Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, 26 September 1972 – 14 January 1973, Niederländische Kunst aus dem Goldenen Jahrhundert, unnumbered;

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Hollandse en Vlaamse Kunst uit de 17e eeuw, 16 February – 1 April 1973, unnumbered;

Munich, Sotheby's, Netherlandish Paintings and Drawing from the Collection of F. C. Butôt, June 1989, no. 19;

's-Hertogenbosch, Noordbrabants Museum, Panorama op de wereld: het landschap van Bosch tot Rubens, 17 March – 10 June 2001, no. 100.

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Niederländisches Kunst aus dem Goldenen Jahrhundert--Gemälde und Zeichnungen im Umkreis grosser Meister aus der Sammlung F.C. Butôt, exh. cat., Salzburg 1972, pp. 96-97, reproduced in colour;

Hollandse en Vlaamse kunst uit de 17e eeuw: hoogtepunten van minder bekende meesters: schilderijen en tekeningen uit de verzameling F.C. Butôt, exh. cat., Rotterdam 1973, pp. 98–99;

W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Maler und Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1979, vol. II, reproduced pl. 913;

L.J. Bol, G. Keyes and F.C. Butôt, Netherlandish paintings and drawings from the collection of F.C. Butôt by little-known and rare masters of the seventeenth century, London 1981, p. 72, cat. no. 19, reproduced;

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 3, Landschaften und Seestücke, Münster/Hamburg/London 2001, pp. 202–05, cat. no. 51, reproduced in colour;

P. Gustot, Gillis Neyts. Un Paysagiste Brabançon en vallée Mosane au XVIIe siècle, Namur 2008, pp. 78–79, cat. no. P29, reproduced in colour.

A preparatory sketch for the castle ruins depicted in this picture is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. [1] In contrast to his numerous small drawings on paper or vellum, Neyts' painted œuvre is very small.

1 inv. no. RP-T-1901-A-4498; https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-1901-A-4498