PROPERTY FROM THE MERTENS COLLECTION
Jan Josefsz van Goyen
PEASANT COUPLE BEFORE A LARGE THATCHED COTTAGE
LOT SOLD.
16,250 USD
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Jan Josefsz van Goyen
LEIDEN 1596 - 1656 THE HAGUE
PEASANT COUPLE BEFORE A LARGE THATCHED COTTAGE
Black chalk and gray wash;
signed with initials in black chalk, lower right: VG
184 by 275 mm; 7 1/4 by 10 7/8 in
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signed with initials in black chalk, lower right: VG
184 by 275 mm; 7 1/4 by 10 7/8 in
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
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