Jan van Goyen (1596 – 1656)
Further images
As the previous sketchbook page shows Amsterdam's Old Town Hall (Beck no. 847/149, present whereabout unknown), destroyed in a fire on 6/7 July 1652, we learn that Jan van Goyen visited Amsterdam to record architectural pinnacles as well as the periphery. It is unfeasible to reconstruct the artist's exact whereabouts when he captured this windmill but following his journey, there are at least sixteen drawings executed in this prosperous town. By 1650, Amsterdam was the center of a worldwide trading network and the leading financial center of the world. The harbor provided the most important point for the transfer of goods in Europe, attracting wealthy merchants who would flaunt their wealth with houses on the canals.
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
With Dr. K. Lilienfeld, 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
Exhibitions
The Hague, Mauritshuis, 1895
The Hague, Mauritshuis, 1918
Leiden, Stedelijk Museum, 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. 64-66Campbell 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, “Jan Van Goyen am Deichbruch von Houtewael (1651),” Oud Holland, Vol. 81, 1 (1966), p. 21, fn. 10, as one of the Amsterdam sketches, ‘Mühle am Wall’ (“mill on the wall”)
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. 847/150A, p. 305 (ill.)
Hans-Ulrich Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656: Ein Oeuvreverzeichnis. Erganzungen zum Katalog der Handzeichnungen, Vol. III, Doornspijk 1987, cat.no. 847/150A, 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