A cattle ferry and other shipping on the river Rhine, with the city of Arnhem beyond

细节

JAN JOSEFZ. VAN GOYEN (Leiden 1596-1665 The Hague)
A cattle ferry and other shipping on the river Rhine, with the city of Arnhem beyond
signed and dated 'VGOYEN 1643' (lower left)
oil on panel
16½ x 30¼ in. (42 x 76.8 cm.)

来源

Professor J. Singer, Prague, circa 1933/4.
with Galerei Internationale, The Hague, before 1938.
Private Collection, U.S.A..

出版

H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, Amsterdam, 1973, II, p. 134, no. 238, illustrated (where the date is incorrectly recorded as 1645).

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拍品专文

Van Goyen painted a number of views of Arnhem, which are dated between 1633 and 1647 (Beck, op. cit., II, pp. 131-141, nos. 272-289). The present work, which is dated 1643, shares the subtle golden tonality typical of his finest works from the early 1640s. Here the choppy Rhine, the boats and the townscape, all set beneath a massive cloudy sky, are unified into one atmospheric whole.

Arnhem, the capital of Gelderland, lies on the Neder Rijn (Rhine) not far from the German border. It was taken from the Spanish in 1585 and the following year Elizabeth I's gallant courtier, the English poet Sir Philip Sidney, died there of wounds received near Zutphen. When van Goyen painted Arnhem, it still had its ramparts, which were demolished after Louis XIV took the city in 1672. Visible in van Goyen's painting, just to the right of centre, is the massive tower of the Grote Kerk (St. Eusabius), founded by Duke Arnold of Egmont in 1452. To the left of the Grote Kerk are the twin towers of Saint Walburgiskerk, a gothic church of 1422.