Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (1596-1656)

Farmhouses and a Haystack along a Road with Travellers resting

Details

Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (1596-1656)
Farmhouses and a Haystack along a Road with Travellers resting
signed with monogram 'VG'
black chalk, black chalk and brown ink framing lines, framed
155 x 263 mm.

Provenance

An unidentified collector's number 'No 446/....' (verso).
Possibly Hamel Collection, The Hague.
C. Schöffer, F. Muller, Amsterdam, 30 May 1893, lot 138 (Nlg. 7.50 to Knowles).
W.P. Knowles; F. Muller, Amsterdam, 25 June 1895, lot 265 (Nlg. 10 to Ruysch with another drawing).
R.P. Goldschmidt (L. 2926); Prestel, Frankfurt, 4 October 1917, lot 236 (DM. 800).
Anon. sale, F. Muller, Amsterdam, 6 July 1927, lot 211, illustrated (Nlg. 100).
A. Mensing; Mensing, Amsterdam, 27 April 1937, lot 232 (Nlg. 55 to Wertheimer).
With M. Schulthess, Basel.
Prof. Dr. F. Merke, Basel; Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 11 June 1976, lot 86, illustrated.
Acquired by the present owner before 1980.

Literature

H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, Amsterdam, 1972, I, no. 617.
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, Doornspijk, 1987, III, no. 617, illustrated.

Lot Essay

Beck (loc. cit., 1987) dates this circa 1630. Van Goyen may have used it when painting his very similar Landscape with travellers on a road along a haystack and an Inn in the City of York Art Gallery (Beck, op. cit., 1973, II, no. 1009, illustrated p. 454) which is dated 1632. Like in the previous lot, the diagonal is well used.

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