THE PROPERTY OF A SOUTH AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR
Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)
A dune landscape with peasants by a track
Details
Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)
A dune landscape with peasants by a track
signed and dated 'VGoyen 1634' ('VG' linked, lower right)
oil on canvas
35 x 49½ in. (88.9 x 125.8 cm.)
Provenance
probably Count Wallmoden-Gimborn; his sale, Hannover, 1 September 1818, lot 208.
Baron E. de Beurnonville; his sale, Paris, 21 May 1883, lot 59 (ff 2,100 to Kleinberger).
with G. Détsy, Goedoelle.
Anon. Sale, Paris, 28 March 1884, lot 16.
Fr. Paulig; her sale, Cologne, 19 May 1890, lot 43 (Mk 1,325 to Baumeister).
H. T. Chapman, New York.
Anon. Sale, New York, 27 January 1913, lot 403.
James Spencer, New York.
with Schaeffer Galleries, New York.
with P. de Koeningsberg, Buenos Aires, 1945, no. 29, from whom purchased by the present owner.
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., London, 1923, VIII, p. 123, no. 478.
H.-U. Beck, Jan Van Goyen 1596-1656, Amsterdam, 1972-1973, II, p. 495, no. 1133.
Exhibited
Karlsbad, 188(3?), no. 27.
Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1908 (on loan from H.T. Chapman).
Lot Essay
Sold with a photocopy of the certificate by W. R. Valentiner as by Jan van Goyen and dated New York, 1 May 1944.