Old Masters

JAN JOSEFSZ. VAN GOYEN | View of a village with a large Gothic church

Auction Closed

May 8, 12:10 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the SØR Rusche Collection

JAN JOSEFSZ. VAN GOYEN

Leiden 1596 - 1656 The Hague

View of a village with a large Gothic church

signed with monogram and dated lower centre: VG 1654

oil on oak panel

42.3 x 56.9 cm.; 16⅝ x 22⅜ in.

Please note the following amendments to the printed catalogue Please note that the last two lines of Provenance should read as follows, and not as stated in the printed catalogue: Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Sotheby's, 11 December 1974, lot 101; Carl Schünemann, Bremen, from whom acquired.

This is one of Van Goyen's late works, painted just two years before his death. The thickly-applied brushwork used to describe the foliage and the rapid yet nuanced strokes that evoke the light and atmosphere of the cloudy day are typical of this period.

Until 1937, this painting was housed in a series of German museums that contained the Electoral and Royal collections, including the Bavarian State Gallery in Munich, where the entire collection of the Wittelsbach Elector of Bavaria, Karl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach (1724–99), was brought in 1798–99 to form the core of what would later become the Alte Pinakothek. These institutions made a number of sales in the 1920s and 30s, usually by exchange.