Lot 596
  • 596

Jan Josefsz. van Goyen

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • estuary scene with boats on choppy water
  • Black chalk, within gray ink framing lines;
    signed with monogram and dated, lower left: VG 1641

Provenance

E. Wauters (L.911);
with G. Wildenstein, Paris/London/New York

Exhibited

Paris 1911;
London 1953, no. 17;
New York 1955, no. 59
(information in each case from Beck, loc. cit., with no further details of the exhibitions)  

Literature

H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, Amsterdam 1972, pp. 82-3, no. 228 (as dated 1651)

Condition

Laid down. Spotted and foxed throughout. Some tears and minor losses towards the two sides. Sold in an attractive, decorative gilded frame.
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