Gillis Neyts
Two peasants by the sea
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March 23, 04:22 PM GMT
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Gillis Neyts
Ghent 1623 - 1687 Antwerp
Two peasants by the sea
Pen and brown ink within brown ink framing lines
82 by 117 mm; 3 ¼ by 4 ⅝ in
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 6 July 1992, lot 74 (as Attributed to Gillis Neyts)
P. Gustot, Gillis Neyts. Un paysagiste Brabançon en vallée Mosane au XVIIe siècle, Namur 2008, p. 249, cat. no. D307
As Pierre Gustot points out (loc. cit.), the precise pen technique and scale of the figures is similar to the artist's style in his etchings.