Live Auction 17081Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours Including Works from the Collection of Jean Bonna
Circle of Gillis Neyts (Ghent 1623-1687 Antwerp)
Lot 101 FROM THE COLLECTION OF JEAN BONNA

Circle of Gillis Neyts (Ghent 1623-1687 Antwerp)

View of a country house reflected in its moat

Closed2 July 2019

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GBP 2,750

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Circle of Gillis Neyts (Ghent 1623-1687 Antwerp)
View of a country house reflected in its moat
with inscription '[v]an lucas van nuyden [?]/ N°166/ 0-2-0/ ai' and with unidentified inscription (verso, according to Strasser, 2013)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour
4 ¾ x 5 7/8 in. (12 x 15 cm)

Anonymous sale; Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 15-16 June 1926, lot 406 (380 guilders to Lugt; as Gillis Neyts).
Ernst Jürgen Otto, Berlin.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 9 November 1999, lot 56 (as attributed to Gillis Neyts).
Anonymous sale; Bassenge, Berlin, 25 November 2011, lot 6258 (as Gillis Neyts).

Specialist note

This view of a Flemish country house at dusk is rather more atmospheric than some of the drawings of similar subjects, also finished with watercolour, by Gillis Neyts, such as a sheet in the Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest (inv. 1915-2363; see P. Gustot, Gillis Neyts. Un Paysagiste brabançon en vallée mosane au XVIIe siècle, Namur, 2008, no. D184, ill.).