Details
JAN JOSEFSZ. VAN GOYEN* (1596-1656)
Fisherfolk on the Beach at Scheveningen
signed with monogram and dated 'VG 1644'--oil on panel laid down on another panel
20¼ x 27in. (51.4 x 68.6cm.)
Provenance
Lord Windmarleigh; sale, Christie's, London, Feb. 5, 1881, lot 657 (# 38 to Colnaghi)
Charles Butler, London, 1902
Jacques Doucet; sale, Paris, June 5, 1912, lot 154 (FF. 23,000 to Kleinberger)
with F. Kleinberger, Paris and New York
Mrs. Orme Wilson, (+); sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, March 25, 1949, lot 365, where the date was incorrectly read as 1649 (sold for $2,400);bought back, and thence by descent
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonnê, etc., VIII, 1927, p. 72, no. 257
The Art Digest, March 1, 1949, p. 20, illustrated
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, II, 1973, p. 426, no. 953; and III, 1987, p. 255, no. 953, illustrated p. 255
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1902, no. 200
