Details
Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (1596-1656)
A Ferry crossing an Estuary and Fisherfolk loading Lobster Pots onto a rowing Boat, a windmill and town beyond
signed with initials and dated 'VG 1640' (on the side of the rowing boat)
oil on panel
14½ x 23 5/8in. (36.9 x 60cm.)
Provenance
Ch[arles] Pillet, Paris.
Heinrich Theodor Höch; sale, Munich, 19 Sept. 1892 [= 1st day], lot 75 (Mk 4,100).
with Karl Haberstock, Berlin.
with Galerie Internationale, The Hague, 1930.
J.W. van Es, Rotterdam.
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1954.
A.H. Kleiweg de Zwaan, Neerlangbroek, 1955.
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1964.
Dr. H. Becker, Dortmund, 1967.
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., VIII, London, 1927, p. 42, no. 127, as dated 1650.
H. Volhard, Die Grundtypen der Landschaftsbilder Jan van Goyens und ihre Entwicklung, Dissertation, 1927, p. 187.
W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, Berlin, 1975, p. 44.
A. Dobrzycka, Jan van Goyen, Posen, 1966, no. 87.
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, II, Amsterdam, 1973, p. 381, no. 852.
Exhibited
Cologne, 1930, no. 26.
Rotterdam, 1930-1, no. 8.
Rotterdam, Boymans Museum, Kunstschatten uit Nederlandisch Verzamelingen, 1955, no. 64.