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Circle of Jan Josefsz. van Goyen
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description
- A winter landscape with skaters on a frozen lake beside a tavern, a windmill beyond
- bears indistinct signature and date on the sleigh in the lower centre: VG 16...
- oil on panel
Provenance
Dr. Paul Mersen, Paris, 1907;
With P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., London;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 19 April 1912, lot 72 (£215 5s to Huggins);
With P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., London;
With Fred Muller, Amsterdam;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, R. Peltzer & Co., 26 May 1914, lot 312 (1859 florins);
M. M. van Valkenburg, Laren, by whom sold, 29 May 1951, lot 9 (as by Jan van de Capelle);
Anonymous sale, Paris, 2 December 1952, lot 71 (as by Jan van Goyen):
With D. Katz, Dieren, 1953;
With P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., London;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 19 April 1912, lot 72 (£215 5s to Huggins);
With P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., London;
With Fred Muller, Amsterdam;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, R. Peltzer & Co., 26 May 1914, lot 312 (1859 florins);
M. M. van Valkenburg, Laren, by whom sold, 29 May 1951, lot 9 (as by Jan van de Capelle);
Anonymous sale, Paris, 2 December 1952, lot 71 (as by Jan van Goyen):
With D. Katz, Dieren, 1953;
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker, Tentoonstelling van Hollandsche Winterlandschappen ult de 17de eeuw, 6-29 February 1932, no. 24, as by Jan van de Cappelle.
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. VIII, London 1927, p. 292, no. 1162;
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, vol.II, Amsterdam 1973, pp. 51-2, no. 98 (where stated to be signed and dated 1634).
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, vol.II, Amsterdam 1973, pp. 51-2, no. 98 (where stated to be signed and dated 1634).
Catalogue Note
Although once attributed to Van Goyen by Dr. Beck, on the basis of photographs he no longer accepts the attribution.