Lot 7: ATTRIBUTED TO GYSBRECHT LEYTENS ANTWERP 1586 - BEFORE 1656

oil on panel

FOREST LANDSCAPE WITH TRAVELLERS NEAR A STREAM

53.8 by 83 cm.; 21 1/4 by 32 3/4 in.

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

The attribution is based upon comparison with the signed landscape formerly with Malmadé, Cologne, in 1936 (for which see P. Reelick, 'Bijdrage tot Identificatie van der Meester der Winterlandschappen (G. Leytens?)', in Oud Holland, vol. LIX, 1942, p. 79, no. 16). Another landscape, unsigned but with a very similar disposition of the principal elements of both the landscape and figures, was sold in Amsterdam, Christie's, 11 May 1994, lot 39, as attributed to Leytens.