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Lot Essay
Painted in 1650, this composition shows Van Goyen's masterful use of his palette, deliberately restricted to a range of yellow and golden-browns with occasional hints of blue. In this late work, Van Goyen has brought his tonal style to perfection, but overall his color range is much more varied than in his works of the 1630s and 1640s. Swathes of blue blend with the white clouds in the sky, the leaves of the trees are depicted in varying shades of green and the staffage in the ferry boat is clothed in an assortment of blues, browns and oranges.
This picture was first recorded in the collection of the Marquis de Veri (1722-1784) who was one of the foremost Parisian collectors of his day. In the first half of the 1920s, it passed through the collection of Dr. James Simon who was one of the most important German collectors of the last century. Simon was a German Jewish businessman who made fortune in textile manufacturing. He was a noted art collector and archeologist whose donations to Berlin's state museums included over 20.000 works of art and antiquities, amongst which the most notable bust of Nefertiti, the Ishtar Gate of Babylon and its Processional Way, both now in the Neues Museum, Berlin.
This picture was first recorded in the collection of the Marquis de Veri (1722-1784) who was one of the foremost Parisian collectors of his day. In the first half of the 1920s, it passed through the collection of Dr. James Simon who was one of the most important German collectors of the last century. Simon was a German Jewish businessman who made fortune in textile manufacturing. He was a noted art collector and archeologist whose donations to Berlin's state museums included over 20.000 works of art and antiquities, amongst which the most notable bust of Nefertiti, the Ishtar Gate of Babylon and its Processional Way, both now in the Neues Museum, Berlin.