PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE LORE AND RUDOLF HEINEMANN SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY, NEW YORK AND THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON

Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (1596-1656)

A View of a Town in Holland on the Banks of a Canal

Details

Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (1596-1656)
A View of a Town in Holland on the Banks of a Canal
numbered 'N⁰. 56', signed with monogram and dated 'VG 1653'
black chalk, grey wash, watermark Strasbourg lily above W
165 x 273 mm.

Provenance

W. Mayor (L. 2799).
T. M. Whitehead; sale, Munich, 19 June 1867, lot 348 (110 kronen to Artaria).
Princes of Liechtenstein.
With Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich.
Professor Leopold Ruzicka, Zurich.

Literature

A brief chronological description of a Collection of Original drawings... formed by the late Mr. William Mayor, London, 1875, no. 606.
H.U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656, Amsterdam, 1972, I, no. 594, illustrated.

Sale room notice

The provenance should read:
The Whitehead sale took place in 1897 and not 1867 as typed in the catalogue.

Lot Essay

Van Goyen mostly used sheets three sizes, 100 x 190 mm., 120 x 200 mm. and 170 x 276 mm. The same watermark as that on the present sheet is found on three further drawings of 1653 from that group, one sold at Christie's, Amsterdam, 1 July 1986, lot 160, and also illustrated in H.U. Beck, op. cit., nos. 519, 372 and 545, along with two other drawings.
The year 1953 was very prolific for Goyen as a draughtsman: two drawings of the same date and of similar size were sold in these Rooms, 7 July 1992, lot 85, and at Christie's, Amsterdam, 25 November 1992, lot 577, illustrated. The sheet was one of six drawings by Goyen in William Mayor's collection.

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