ATTRIBUTED TO MARC BAETS (Flemish, 18th century). RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH TRAVELLERS BY AN INN, oil on panel - 14 in. x 16 1/2 in. Estimate $2,000-3,000
Vertical crack to panel at 5 in. from left side, with some losses in upper area; fine horizontal craquelure throughout; area of overpaint in sky above river and in river just below building with tower and above sail; vertical hairline split visible at 5 in. from right edge with some pigment lifting; surface debris embedded in varnish; old lining tape reinforcing cracks to panel on reverse. UV: 2 in. area of inpainting at lower left edge, area in bottom foreground below group of standing women at left, along left eave of gable of building in foreground and in top of mountains to left of budiling.
