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Le Pigeonnier: An extensive landscape with peasants sitting on a bank by a dilapidated cottage
Details
Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)
Le Pigeonnier: An extensive landscape with peasants sitting on a bank by a dilapidated cottage
signed 'VGoyen 1641' (VG linked, lower left)
oil on canvas, oval
15 x 19½ in. (38.1 x 49.5 cm.)
Le Pigeonnier: An extensive landscape with peasants sitting on a bank by a dilapidated cottage
signed 'VGoyen 1641' (VG linked, lower left)
oil on canvas, oval
15 x 19½ in. (38.1 x 49.5 cm.)
Provenance
H. Roxard de la Salle, Nancy, Paris; sale, Paris, 28 March 1881, lot 13 (4,100 Frs to Richard).
Laurent Richard, Paris; sale, Paris, 28 May 1886, lot 21 (2,000 Frs to Leclanché).
with Sedelmeyer, Paris.
Dr. Max Wassermann, Paris.
Confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg during the Nazi occupation, Paris, 4 March 1941.
Acquired for the collection of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, 11 March 1941 (inventory no. 795).
Returned to France and restituted to the heirs of Dr. Max Wasserman, 24 October 1947; ; sale, Palais Galliéra, Paris, 26 November 1967, lot 14, where purchased by René Küss.
Laurent Richard, Paris; sale, Paris, 28 May 1886, lot 21 (2,000 Frs to Leclanché).
with Sedelmeyer, Paris.
Dr. Max Wassermann, Paris.
Confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg during the Nazi occupation, Paris, 4 March 1941.
Acquired for the collection of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, 11 March 1941 (inventory no. 795).
Returned to France and restituted to the heirs of Dr. Max Wasserman, 24 October 1947; ; sale, Palais Galliéra, Paris, 26 November 1967, lot 14, where purchased by René Küss.
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc, VIII, London, 1927, pp. 94-5, no. 354.
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, II, Amsterdam, 1973, p. 69, no. 139, illustrated.
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, II, Amsterdam, 1973, p. 69, no. 139, illustrated.
Exhibited
Leiden, Gemeente Museum, Rembrandt, 1906, no. 18
Paris, Jeu de Paume, Rétrospective des grands et petits maîtres hollandais, 1911, no. 39
Paris, Jeu de Paume, Rétrospective des grands et petits maîtres hollandais, 1911, no. 39
Engraved
L. Lowenstam.
Special notice
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Sale room notice
Please note that the present lot is oil on panel and not as stated in the catalogue.