Lot 191: A wooded rocky landscape with a couple tending sheep

Gillis Peeters (Antwerp 1612-1653)
A wooded rocky landscape with a couple tending sheep
signed and dated 'GIllis·peeters 1652' (GI linked, lower centre)
oil on panel
36.8 x 59.3 cm.

's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabants Museum, Panorama op de wereld. Het landschap van Bosch tot Rubens , 16 March-10 June 2001, p. 192, no. 99, illustrated.
Paderborn, Städtische Galerie in der Reithalle Schloss Neuhaus, Schiffsbruch vor felsiger Küste-Niederländische Landschaften und Seestücke des 17. Jahrhunderts , 23 August-4 November 2001.
Erfurt, Angermuseum, Unter weitem Himmel-Holländische Landschaftsbilder des 'Goldenen Jahrhunderts' aus der Sammlung SOER Rusche , 10 February-21 April 2002.

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A W. Bernt certificate, dated 28 June 1976, is included with this lot.