Jan Josefsz. van Goyen

Attached to backing in the lower corners. Overall condition good and fresh. A little very light foxing and surface dirt, but chalk good and strong. Sold in a gilded frame.
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Like lot 85, this rapidly drawn study of a boat pulled up on a river bank in front of a shed is a characteristic example of the sketches from nature that Van Goyen made throughout his life.  Other sheets, similar in size and character to this and possibly originally from the same sketchbook, are in Edinburgh, Windsor and Cambridge.¹ Dr. Beck dates these drawings to the mid 1640s.  

¹ H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, Amsterdam 1972, vol. I, nos. 693, 696 and 697