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Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff

Jan Josefsz. van Goyen

The beach at Scheveningen

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December 4, 01:51 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff 


Jan Josefsz. van Goyen

Leiden 1596–1656 The Hague

The beach at Scheveningen


monogrammed and dated lower right: VG 1653

oil on oak panel

unframed: 25.6 x 42.5 cm.; 10⅛ x 16¾ in.

framed: 44.8 x 61.5 cm.; 17⅝ x 24¼ in.

Please note the updated provenance, literature and exhibition history for this lot.

Schloss Schwarzau, Reichenau, near Vienna;

Nicholas Argenti (1896–1961), London, from 1935;

By descent to his daughter, Anne Conran, Picts Hill, Turvey, Bedfordshire;

Dr Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005), by 1993;

Thence by descent.

Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, on long-term loan, from 1971, presumably until 1987 or later;

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Heiter bis wolkig. Naturschauspiele in de niederländischen Malerei, 1 June 2017 – 5 February 2018;

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, on long-term loan, 1993–2025 (inv. no. Dep. 569).

H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596–1656, Amsterdam 1973, vol. II, p. 431, no. 961, reproduced;

H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596–1656, Doornspijk 1987, vol. III, p. 255, no. 961;

U. Bendix, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers: Gemälde vom XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhundert, E. Mai (ed.), Cologne 1993, pp. 123–24, no. 48, reproduced in colour p. 125;

E. Mai, 'Staffage und Landschaft', in Kölner Museums-Bulletin, no. 1, 1996, p. 20, reproduced fig. 19;

M. Niessen, 'Das land der wellen und wolken', in Baroque: das Magazin für Barockes, no. 1, 2018, p. 27, reproduced in colour.