Jan van Goyen (1596 – 1656)
Further images
Eltenberg is a relatively high hill near the German border village of Elten on the northbank of the Rhine before the river flows into the Netherlands. Because of its strategic location, whoever dominated this area, controlled the shipping traffic and gateway to the Republic. The castle at Lobith was used by Maurits as his headquarters during the Eighty Year war. After 1648, it gradually fell into disrepair. From Lobith, Van Goyen certainly crossed the Rhine by boat, as the drawing of the small sailboat immediately following on the back indicates.
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 Hirschmann4)
With Adolf Mayer, the Hague and New York
With Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York, 1957
C.F. Louis de Wildt, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Carel Goldschmidt, New York
Sale, Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, 21 March 1977, lot 66B, ill. (sold together with lot 66A, Beck no. 847/10 for ƒ13,500)
With Th. Laurentius, Zaltbommel, The Netherlands, cat. 1978, no. 22, ill.
Sale, Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, 18 November 1980, lot 53 (ƒ5,600)
With Beets & Fontein, Lochem, The Netherlands
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. 21, fn. 10, as one of the Amsterdam sketches, ‘vor dem Haarlemmer Tor’ (“before the Haarlem city gate”)
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. 847/31, p. 291, ill.
Hans-Ulrich Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656: Ein Oeuvreverzeichnis. Erganzungen zum Katalog der Handzeichnungen, Vol. III, Doornspijk 1987, cat.no. 847, pp. 124-125b
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