Landscape with Figures and Horses in the Foreground

Gillis NeytsWW-1643-334350

1643·Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper·14.1 × 10.6 cm (5 9/16 × 4 3/16 in.)

Purchased with funds provided by Julius Lewis

Catalogue

Year: 1643
Medium: Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 14.1 × 10.6 cm (5 9/16 × 4 3/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Gillis Neyts

Artist

Gillis Neyts

Painting

Gillis Neyts or Aegidius Neyts was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and engraver. He was a landscape artist who is now mainly known for his italianising and topographical drawings of sites throughout the Southern Netherlands. He was a less prolific painter of landscapes and also produced a number of landscape prints. He further left a great number of figure studies.

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