Black chalk, with brush and gray wash on ivory laid paper
96 by 155 mm.
Inscribed ‘15’
Provenance
Possibly Andrew Geddes (1738-1844), London, 1845 His sale, Christie's, London, 8-14 April 1845, lot 361 Private collection, England, 1879 Johnson Neale, London, by 1895 Thomas Mark Hovell (1853-1925), London, June 1918 Thomas Dinwiddy His sale, Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1918, lot 124 (£610) With P. and D. Colnaghi & Obach, London (stock no. A1700) Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 15 August 1918 (sold for £800) With Anton Mensing (1866-1936), Amsterdam His sale, Frederik Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 27 April 1937, lot 218 (for 7,200 florins to Hirschmann4) With Adolf Mayer, the Hague and New York With Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York, 1957 C.F. Louis de Wild (1900-1987), New York, from whom reacquired by Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York, 1959 Prof.Dr. Fred P., New York and later Vienna Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, 1987/1988 Christie's, London, private sale, 2014 Private collection, New York
Literature
Verslagen omtrent ‘s Rijks Verzamelingen van Geschiedenis en Kunst, Vol. 18, 1895-1896, pp. 64-66 Campbell Dodgson, ”A Dutch Sketchbook of 1650”, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 32, no. 183 (June 1918), pp. 234-240 Abraham Bredius, in response to Campbell Dodgson, “A Dutch Sketchbook of 1650,” Burlington Magazine, Vol. 33, no. 186, (September 1918), p. 112 Campbell Dodgson, “A Dutch Sketchbook of 1650,” Burlington Magazine, Vol. 66, no. 387 (June 1935), p. 284 Hans-Ulrich Beck, ”Jan van Goyens Handzeichnungen als Vorzeichnungen”, Oud-Holland, Vol. 72, 1957, pp. 241-250 Friedrich Gorissen, Conspectus Cliviae, Cleve, 1964, p. 84-86 Hans-Ulrich Beck, Ein Skizzenbuch von Jan van Goyen, The Hague, 1966, p. 5 H. Dattenberg, Niederrheinansichten holländischer Künstler, Düsseldorf 1967 Hans-Ulrich Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656: Ein Oeuvreverzeichnis. Katalog der Handzeichnungen, Vol. I, Amsterdam 1972, no. 847/15, p. 288 (not ill.) Hans-Ulrich Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656: Ein Oeuvreverzeichnis. Erganzungen zum Katalog der Handzeichnungen, Vol. III, Doornspijk 1987, no. 847/15, pp. 125a-b (ill.) Edwin Buijsen, ”De schetsboeken van Jan van Goyen”, in: Jan van Goyen, Leiden 1996, pp. 22-37, 80, 130 Ann H. Sievers, Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art, New York 2000, pp. 65-69, nos. 12-13