Old Master & British Works on Paper
Old Master & British Works on Paper
Recto and verso: The Church and beach at Scheveningen
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Jan Josefsz. van Goyen
Leiden 1596 - 1656 The Hague
Recto and verso: The Church and beach at Scheveningen
Black chalk (recto and verso), within black chalk framing lines;
bears inscription in grey ink, lower left: J van Goyen, and numbering and initials in dark brown ink, verso: No 412 / EM
97 by 149 mm
No Dutch draughtsman ever captured the atmosphere of the vibrant coastal life of Holland with the same atmospheric and engaging simplicity that Van Goyen achieved in drawings such as this.
1. Beck, op. cit., no. 158; reproduced Ibid., vol. III, Supplement, Doornspijk 1987, p. 51