ID 1362551
Lot 105 | JAN JOSEFSZ. VAN GOYEN (LEIDEN 1596-1656)
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
A river landscape with a watchtower and cannon on a bank and ferry boats and sailing ships in the distance
signed in monogram and dated 'VG 1644' (lower left, on the boat)
oil on panel
16 7/8 x 29 ¾ in. (42.8 x 75.7 cm.)
Provenance
Count André Mniszech (1823-1905), Paris.
with Wildenstein, Paris, by circa 1920.
D. Hermsen, The Hague, by 1925.
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, by 1929 until at least 1931.
with Asscher and Welker, London; circa 1931-1937, where acquired by,
Georg Schicht (1884-1961), London, and by whom brought to the United states in 1937.
with John Nicholson Gallery, New York, by 1946 (stock no. 1923), where acquired for $4,500 by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on 13 March 1947.
Literature
Advertisement, Pantheon, December 1929, p. xxix, illustrated.
W. Stechow, Dutch Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century, Ithaca, 1966 and 1981, p. 29.
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, II, Amsterdam, 1973, p. 341, no. 757, illustrated.
A.R. Murphy, European Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue, Boston, 1985, p. 122, illustrated.
P.C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America, Washington, D.C., 1986, p. 29.
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Kunsthandel Pieter de Boer, 1930, no. 41.
| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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