Landscape with Figures and Horses in the Foreground

Provenance

Dr. Edward Peart (1756 or 58–1824), London and Butterwick [inscribed (Lugt 892), recto, lower left, in black]. Probably Dr. Curt Otto (1880–1929), Leipzig; sold, Boerner, Leipzig, Nov. 7, 1929, lot 107. Sold, Sotheby’s 14 November 1988, lot 26. Sold by Bob P. Haboldt, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "g.nyts.f."; verso, upper left, in graphite: “59572"; lower left, in graphite: “G. Nyts”

Exhibition history

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 29 (ill.), 30, 306, 334, cat. 4, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Publications

Pierre Gustot, Gillis Neyts: Un paysagiste Brabançon en vallée Mosane au XVIIe siècle (Namur: Musée des arts anciens du Namurois, 2008), D88, p. 176.

Quick Overview

Artist: Gillis Neyts / Flemish, 1623-1687
Date: 1638/87
Medium: Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 14.1 × 10.6 cm (5 9/16 × 4 3/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: pen and ink drawings
Place: Flanders
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Purchased with funds provided by Julius Lewis
Accession no.: 1989.165

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.