Lot 100: A landscape with a large tree overhanging a track, a traveller and a seated woman to the right

Gillis Neyts (Ghent 1623- circa 1687) A landscape with a large tree overhanging a track, a traveller and a seated woman to the right signed 'AE. Neyts f.' black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, pen and brown ink framing lines, watermark foolscap 8 x 12 3/8 in. (204 x 315 mm.)

W. Esdaile (L. 816 and 2617), with his inscription '1834 WE 150x'.
A. Freiherr von Lanna (L. 2773); H.G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, May 1910, lot 421.

A drawing so similar in size, technique and composition that it might almost be a pendant to the present work was in the collection of Professor I.Q. van Regteren Altena, previously owned by the late Duke of Hamilton (Le Cabinet d'un Amateur, Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d'une collection privée d'Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, and elsewhere, 1976-77, no. 93, pl. 115).