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拍品專文
In 1942, P.F.J.J. Reelick tentatively proposed the name of Gijsbrecht Leytens as the artist responsible for a group of similarly conceived winter landscapes produced in Antwerp in the first half of the seventeenth century that were previously assembled under the placeholder name 'Master of the Winter Landscapes' (P.F.J.J. Reelick, ‘Bijdrage tot Identificatie van den Meester der Winterlandschappen (G. Leytens?’, Oud Holland, LIX, 1942, pp. 74-79). More than four decades later, Ursula Härting presented incontrovertible proof when she published a fully signed painting by the artist (U. Härting, ‘Der Meister der Winterlandschaften, der Maler Gysbrecht Leytens’, Die Kunst, I, 1988, p. 27).
Leytens, who appears to have resided in Antwerp his entire life, was apprenticed in 1598 to the painter and dealer Jacques Vrolyck. He is recorded as a master in the city’s Guild of Saint Luke in 1611 and by 1617 was sufficiently successful to have a number of pupils working under him. Archival documents indicate that he was still alive in 1642 but by 1657 he was described as ‘wijlen’ (deceased). Contemporary inventories indicate that Leytens frequently collaborated with artists like Frans Francken II and Sebastiaen Vrancx, who would have provided the figures in some of his compositions. In addition to winter landscapes, Leytens is documented as having painted six marine paintings (now lost) and at least one non-winter landscape (Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum, Brunswick).
In several instances Leytens largely reused details in his compositions. A highly comparable deeply receding tree-lined landscape features in a painting of similar scale sold Christie’s, London, 3 December 2008, lot 150.
Leytens, who appears to have resided in Antwerp his entire life, was apprenticed in 1598 to the painter and dealer Jacques Vrolyck. He is recorded as a master in the city’s Guild of Saint Luke in 1611 and by 1617 was sufficiently successful to have a number of pupils working under him. Archival documents indicate that he was still alive in 1642 but by 1657 he was described as ‘wijlen’ (deceased). Contemporary inventories indicate that Leytens frequently collaborated with artists like Frans Francken II and Sebastiaen Vrancx, who would have provided the figures in some of his compositions. In addition to winter landscapes, Leytens is documented as having painted six marine paintings (now lost) and at least one non-winter landscape (Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum, Brunswick).
In several instances Leytens largely reused details in his compositions. A highly comparable deeply receding tree-lined landscape features in a painting of similar scale sold Christie’s, London, 3 December 2008, lot 150.