Lot 168
  • 168

Jan Josefsz. van Goyen

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • Dune landscape
  • signed in monogram and dated lower right: VG 1631
  • oil on oak panel

Provenance

Anonymous sale ('Jos. Monchen, and others'), Amsterdam, Müller & Mensing, 30 April 1907, lot 83, for 1100 florins;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Müller & Mensing, 26 April 1910, lot 45;
Possibly sold London, Christie’s, 4 July 1919, lot 101, for 40 guineas to Peacock;
With Max Rothschild, London, 1919;
Frederic Anthony White;
By whom sold London, Christie’s, 18 December 1925, lot 55, for 175 Guineas to de Casseres;
With D.A. Hoogendijk, Amsterdam, 1932;
H. Nijgh, Rotterdam, by 1933.

Literature

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné…, vol. VIII, London 1927, pp. 91-92, cat. no. 339;
K. Postma, Verzameling H. Nijgh, Rotterdam 1933, cat. no. 13, reproduced;
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656. Katalog der Gemälde, vol. II, Amsterdam 1973, pp. 483-84, cat. no. 1095, reproduced.

Condition

In overall good condition. The panel is formed of a single plank, which is cradled, flat and stable. The paint surface is clean and the varnish is clear and even. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals fine lines and small spots of retouching throughout the sky along the wood grain, and a longer line of horizontal retouching, approx. 10 cm. long, extending into the sky from the right of the tree, but the foreground remains largely untouched. Offered in a plain ebonised wood frame in very good condition.
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