Lot 1: f - Gysbrecht Leytens Antwerp 1586 - before 1656 , A wooded river landscape with a shepherd and shepherdess resting their flock

oil on oak panel, the reverse with the brand of the Antwerp panel-maker's Guild and the maker's mark of Lambrecht Steens

measurements note 40 by 57.8 cm.; 15 3/4 by 22 3/4 in.

Formerly attributed to Alexander Keirincx (1600-1652). The attribution to Leytens is based on a comparison with the signed landscape formerly with Malmedé, 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 by the same hand was sold in Amsterdam, Christie's, 11 May 1994, lot 39 (as Attributed to Leytens). The figures are the work of a different hand, from the workshop or following of Frans Francken the Younger.