A landscape with trees (recto), Travellers with horses and a carriage in a dune landscape (verso): A page from a sketchbook

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Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)
A landscape with trees (recto), Travellers with horses and a carriage in a dune landscape (verso): A page from a sketchbook
numbered '93' (recto) and '94' (verso)
black chalk, grey wash
96 x 152 mm.

Provenance

Mr Johnson Neale, as part of an album of about 270 views by van Goyen bought on the Continent in the 19th Century.
Mr Mark T. Hovell, F.R.C.S., 105 Harley Street, London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1918, the album sold as lot 124 (GBP 610 to Colnaghi).
A.W.M. Mensing; Muller Mensing, Amsterdam, 27 April 1937, the album sold as lot 218 (7,200 fl.).
A. Mayer.
Dr. Karl Lilienfeld, New York, 1957, by whom the album was dismembered. With C.F. de Wild, New York.

Literature

H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen (1596-1656), ein Oeuvreverzeichnis, I, Einführung, Katalog der Handzeichnungen, Amsterdam, 1972, pp. 299-300, nos. 847/93-4.

Special notice

Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

Lot Essay

One of an album of views drawn by van Goyen on a journey through south-eastern Holland and north-western Germany in 1650-1. Thirty drawings from the album were bought from de Wild by Carel Goldschmidt, sold from the collection at Christie's, New York, 12 January 1995, lots 220-249.

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