A landscape with two men resting before a farmhouse

Details

JAN JOSEFSZ. VAN GOYEN (LEIDEN 1596-1656 THE HAGUE)
A landscape with two men resting before a farmhouse
signed with initials 'VG' (lower left)
black chalk, gray-green wash, gray ink framing lines
6 x 10 ½ in. (15.2 x 26.7 cm.)

Provenance

Louis Deglatigny (1854-1936), Rouen (L. 1768a); Hôtel Drouot (Féral, Catroux & Huteau), Paris, 14 June 1937, lot 110.
with Marg. Schulthess, Basel.
Prof. Dr. F. Merke, Basel; Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 11 June 1976, lot 85.
with Kunsthandel Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern (Lagerkatalog, 1977, no. 8).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 10 November 1997, lot 60, where acquired by the present owner.

Literature

H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656, I, Amsterdam, 1972, p. 205, no. 615, illustrated; III, Doornspijk, 1987, p. 104, no. 615.
P.C. Sutton, The Martin and Kathleen Feldstein Collection, privately published, 2020, pp. 118-119, no. 33, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

The farm shown in the present drawing is closely related to that in van Goyen's painting dated 1631 in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Carcassonne (see Beck, op. cit., II, 1973, no. 998, illustrated). This date corresponds with Beck's dating of the drawing to circa 1631 (op. cit., 1987). A copy after the present drawing is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie de Besançon (inv. 776; see Beck, op. cit., I, p. 205, under no. 615).

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