Old Master Drawings

Jan Josefsz. van Goyen

Landscape with a Row of Trees and a Village in the Distance

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January 27, 05:29 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

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Jan Josefsz. van Goyen

Leiden 1596 - 1656 The Hague

Landscape with a Row of Trees and a Village in the Distance

Black chalk within the remains of brown ink framing lines;

inscribed partially illegibly, in black chalk, top centre: bij..nere and bears numbering in brown ink, upper centre: 97

118 by 244 mm; 4 3/4 by 9 5/8 in

With P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1960,
where acquired by Michael Ingram (bears his collectors mark, not in Lugt),
by whose executors sold, London, Sotheby's, The Ingram Collection: Drawings and Watercolours from the Collection of the Late Michael Ingram, 8 December 2005, lot 13

There are a number of other equally rapidly-executed drawings by Van Goyen which share the same format as this sheet, and are similarly inscribed along the top edge with topographical identifications.¹ All are probably sheets originating from a single sketchbook.

1. H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, vol. I, Amsterdam 1972, cat. nos. Z 744, 745, 761, 765, 766, and idem, vol. III, Doornspijk 1987, cat. no. Z 775A