A Fine Line: Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
A Fine Line: Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Jan Josefsz. van Goyen
Beach scene
Auction Closed
July 7, 10:53 AM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Jan Josefsz. van Goyen
Leiden 1596 - 1656 The Hague
Beach scene
Black chalk and grey wash
111 by 191 mm
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 July 2012, lot 88
Lively beach scenes of this type form a significant and characteristic part of Van Goyen's drawn oeuvre. At least two other drawings, both signed and dated 1653, seem to show the same location (possibly Scheveningen?) from slightly different viewpoints.1
1. H.U. Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596 - 1656, vol. 1, Amsterdam 1972, nos. 371-2