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JAN JOSEFSZ VAN GOYEN | Peasant couple before a large thatched cottage
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Sold
16,250 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Peasant couple before a large thatched cottage
- Black chalk and gray wash;signed with initials in black chalk, lower right: VG
Provenance
With 'Schöffer',
from whom purchased in 1935 by Wilhelm A. Woldemar Mertens (1899-1938), Leipzig,
thence by descent to the present owners
from whom purchased in 1935 by Wilhelm A. Woldemar Mertens (1899-1938), Leipzig,
thence by descent to the present owners
Literature
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656, vol. I, Amsterdam 1972, p. 208, no. 628
Catalogue Note
A charming snapshot of daily life, this drawing depicts two figures conversing outside a cottage. Van Goyen has created an idyllic rustic scene and has manipulated the chalk and wash to produce different textures across the paper, softer tones for the foliage behind the cottage and darker tones for the farming apparatus in the immediate foreground to the left of the composition. Van Goyen illustrates the same cottage, without the figures, in a sketch in the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris.1
1. Beck, op.cit., p. 235, no. 758
1. Beck, op.cit., p. 235, no. 758