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Jan Josefsz. van Goyen Leiden 1596 - 1656 The Hague

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Description

  • A river landscape with a cattle-ferry
  • signed with monogram and dated lower right on the ferry: VG 1654
  • oil on canvas, in a carved and gilt wood frame

Provenance

Collection of Lord Huntingfield;
With Duits, London;
With Pieter de Boer, Amsterdam, 1929/30, cat. II, no. 78;
With H. Bammann, Dusseldorf, exhibited Cologne, 1930, no. 25;
With Asscher and Welker, London;
Collection of Dr. G. Schicht, London, 1932;
With J. Nicholson, New York, 1948, no. 7;
With Edward Speelman, London, circa 1955;
From whom acquired by the father of the present owners.

Exhibited

London, Alan Jacobs Gallery, Jan van Goyen - Poet of the Dutch Landscape, 19 April - 25 May 1977, cat. no. 31.

Literature

H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, vol. II, Amsterdam 1973, pp. 262-3, no. 570, reproduced fig. 570;
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, vol. III, Doornspijk 1987, p. 209, no. 570.