Jan Josefsz. van Goyen

Window mounted. Light foxing throughout. Very minor damages/losses in all the corners. Chalk very good and fresh.
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This fine, energetic study, in which one really feels the winter wind, can be associated with a number of other drawings, very similar in style and dimensions, which may even originate from a dismembered sketchbook.¹  Hans-Ulrich Beck dated these drawings to the mid 1630s, but others have suggested, with good reason, they may be slightly earlier, from around 1627-30.² 

1. For example H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, vol. I, Amsterdam 1972, nos. 738, 753, 767, 772
2.  A. Stefes, Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1850. Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle, 3 vols., Cologne 2011, vol. I, pp. 248-9, under no. 377