Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (1596-1656)

Travellers resting on a Rise near Trees along a Road, covered waggons beyond

Details

Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (1596-1656)
Travellers resting on a Rise near Trees along a Road, covered waggons beyond
signed with monogram and dated 'VG 1649'
black chalk, grey wash, watermark posthorn in a shield with LA, black chalk framing lines
163 x 271 mm.

Provenance

Anon. sale, De Vries, Amsterdam, 22 June 1910, lot 137 (Nlg. 190).
Anon. sale, F. Muller, Amsterdam, 15 June 1926, lot 375, illustrated (Nlg. 400 to Cassirer).
Anon. sale, Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 31 May 1979, lot 422 (Sfr. 10,000 to Douwes).
Acquired by the present owner circa 1981.

Literature

H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656, Amsterdam, 1972, I, no. 179, illustrated.
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656, Doornspijk, 1989, II, no. 179.

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Douwes, Esaias van de Velde Jan van Goyen, 1981, p. 27, illustrated.

Lot Essay

Van Goyen here uses a clump of trees on a rise in the centre to accentuate the perspective leading the eye to the right, where waggons are riding out on to the low horizon. Behind the trees a farm can be made out. He used similar settings already in earlier pictures [Beck, op. cit., 1973 and 1987, II and III, nos. 1013, 1041 and 1116 (1633), 1018aA and 1135aA (1635), 1165 (1647)], and in his view of the church of Nieder Elten of the same year as the present drawing (Beck, op. cit., 1973, II, no. 154).

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