An Estuary with Fishermen mooring a rowing Boat, windmills beyond

Details

Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (1596-1656)
An Estuary with Fishermen mooring a rowing Boat, windmills beyond
signed with monogram and dated 'VG 1653' (on the rowing boat)
oil on panel
10 3/8 x 16in. (25.4 x 40.6cm.)

Provenance

Th. Bonjeau, 10 Rue Lafitte, Paris, no. 6182 (19th Century label on the reverse).
with Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, London.
Joseph Homberg; sale, Paris, 11 May 1923, lot 25.

Literature

H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, II, Amsterdam, 1973, p. 260, no. 564, illustrated.

Lot Essay

A similar view with numerous differences in the details, signed and dated 1643, is in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (Beck, op. cit., p. 232, no. 493; illustrated in III, Doornspijk, 1987, p. 202).

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