A river Estuary with Boats sailing upstream and Fishermen hauling in their Nets in the foreground, a Guardhouse beyond

Details

Jan Josefsz. van Goyen* (1596-1656)
A river Estuary with Boats sailing upstream and Fishermen hauling in their Nets in the foreground, a Guardhouse beyond
signed with monogram and dated 'VG 1653'
oil on panel--unframed
10 7/8 x 16½in. (27.6 x 41.8cm.)

Provenance

Anon. Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Feb. 8, 1954, lot 73 (illustrated on the cover of the catalogue).

Literature

H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, II, 1973, p. 325, no. 714.
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, III, 1987, p. 228, no. 714.

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Dr. Hans-Ulrich Beck for confirming the date of the painting as 1653. He further notes that the same guardhouse reappears in two other paintings, the first signed and dated 1651 in the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (see Beck, op. cit., 1973, p. 321, no. 704) and the second signed and dated 1652, previously in the Marcell von Nemes sale, Munich, January 16, 1908, lot 29 (ibid., p. 322, no. 706).