Jan van Goyen (1596 – 1656)
Amsterdam, before the Haarlem city gate with a horse carriage on a bridge and a boat on the river, 1651
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Sold to The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College
Jan van Goyen (1596 – 1656)
A village church, 1650
Black chalk, with brush and gray wash on ivory laid paper
3¾ x 6⅛ inches (9.5 x 15.7 cm.)
Inscribed ‘14’ and partial watermark
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The present drawing provided the artist with the main motif for the larger drawing, dated 1653, in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
The present drawing provided the artist with the main motif for the larger drawing, dated 1653, in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Provenance
Possibly Andrew Geddes (1738-1844), London, 1845His 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 Hirschmann
With Adolf Mayer, The Hague and New York
With Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York, 1957
Prof.Dr. Fred P., New York, later Vienna
Galerie Sankt Lucas, Vienna, 1987-1988
Christie's, London, private sale, 2014
Private collection, New York
Exhibitions
The Hague, Mauritshuis, 1895
The Hague, Mauritshuis, 1918
Literature
Verslagen omtrent ‘s Rijks Verzamelingen van Geschiedenis en Kunst, Vol. 18, 1895-1896, pp. 64-66Campbell 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. 847/14, p. 288 (not ill.)
Hans-Ulrich Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656: Ein Oeuvreverzeichnis. Erganzungen zum Katalog der Handzeichnungen, Vol. III, Doornspijk 1987, no. 847/14, p. 125a (not 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
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