GILLIS PEETERS THE ELDER | SHEPHERDS AND THEIR FLOCK BY BUILDINGS, IN A SOUTHERN LANDSCAPE

Lodi, Munich;

With Galerie Kurt J. Müllenmeister, Solingen, by 1968;

Private collection, Germany, whence acquired.

's-Hertogenbosch, Noordbrabants Museum, Panorama op de wereld: het landschap van Bosch tot Rubens, 17 March – 10 June 2001, no. 99;

Rotterdam, Kunsthal, At Home in the Golden Age, 9 February – 18 May 2008, no. 17.

The SØR Rusche Collection has been exhibited extensively over the last two decades. Please click here for further information.

K.J. Müllenmeister, Meer und Land im Licht des 17 Jahrunderts, Bremen 1981, p. 19, cat. no. 295, reproduced;

Y. Thiery, Les Peintres Flamands de Paysage aux XVIIe siècle. Des précurseurs à Rubens, Brussels 1986, pp. 64 and 249, cat. no. 21;

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 3, Landschaften und Seestücke, Münster/Hamburg/London 2001, pp. 210–11, cat. no. 53, reproduced in colour; W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M.J. Bok et al., At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 44, cat. no. 17, reproduced in colour.

A member of a Flemish family of marine and landscape painters, Gillis became a master of the Antwerp guild of St Luke in 1634 along with his brother Bonaventura, with whom he is known to have shared a studio in Antwerp. His œuvre consists chiefly of landscapes, many of which reveal a debt to the work of Paul Bril, although he is perhaps best known for a small group of works depicting the coastline of Brazil, where he is believed to have travelled in around 1637.