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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jan van Goyen (1596 – 1656), Kleve: the tower and city wall with ruins of the Cowdeer tower, 1650 Sold to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Jan van Goyen (1596 – 1656)

Kleve: the tower and city wall with ruins of the Cowdeer tower, 1650
Black chalk, with brush & gray wash on ivory laid paper
3¾ x 6⅛ inches (9.6 x 15.7 cm.)
Inscribed ‘35’ and partial watermark
Sold

The present sketch is related to a finished drawing in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum.

The present sketch is related to a finished drawing in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum.

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, 1957C.F. Louis de Wild, New York

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

Exhibitions

The Hague, Mauritshuis, 1895

The Hague, Mauritshuis, 1918

Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Jan van Goyen, 4 June - 27 July 1960;

Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum, 31 July - 26 September 1960, no. 107

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, no. 137, p. 85

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. 847/35A, p. 291, ill.

Hans-Ulrich Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656: Ein Oeuvreverzeichnis. Erganzungen zum Katalog der Handzeichnungen, Vol. III, Doornspijk 1987, no. 847/35A, 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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