Fisherfolk on a beach, the fishing fleet seen beyond

Details

Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)
Fisherfolk on a beach, the fishing fleet seen beyond
signed and dated 'VG 1633'
black chalk, grey wash, watermark posthorn in a cartouche above AB, pen and brown ink framing lines
4 1/8 x 7 5/8 in. (106 x 193 mm.)

Provenance

F. Abott; Fiévez, Brussels, 22 November 1922, part of lot 38.
J.A. Boussac (L. 729b); Georges Petit, Paris, 11 May 1926, lot 133.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 21 March 1977, lot 33. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1992, lot 30.

Literature

H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, Amsterdam, 1972, I, no. 125, III, illustrated p. 48.

Exhibited

Austin, Texas, Archer M. Huntingdon Art Gallery, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Drawings, 1982, no. 11.
Norwich, Castle Museum, The Northern Eye, 1987.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

The church visible beyond the dunes to the left of this drawing may be Scheveningen. A copy of the composition attributed to Simon de Vlieger is in Munich (W. Wegner, Kataloge der staatlichen graphischen Sammlung München: Die niderländischen Handzeichnungen des 15.-18. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1973, no. 1036).

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