Horses and Carts on a Road in a hilly River Landscape

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Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (1596-1656)
Horses and Carts on a Road in a hilly River Landscape
signed with monogram and dated (strengthened ?) 'VG 1651'
black chalk, grey wash, brown ink framing lines, watermark pascal lamb in a crowned shield (cf. Beck no. 3).
180 x 300 mm.

Provenance

J.W. Barchman Wuytiers; Wild & Altheer, Utrecht, 17 September 1792, lot E 25 (Nlg. 3 to Hardenberg).
J.M. Vreeswijk; F. Muller, Amsterdam, 3 May 1882, lot 121 (Nlg. 24 to Van Gogh).
H.P. Bremmer.
H.C. Valkema Blouw; F. Muller, Amsterdam, 2 March 1954, lot 183 (Nlg. 525 to Knoedler).
Acquired by the father of the present owner shortly afterwards.

Literature

Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam, I, 1914, no. 55, illustrated.
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, Amsterdam, 1972, I, no. 276, illustrated.
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, Doornspijk, III, 1987, no. 276.

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jan van Goyen, 1903, p. 22, no. 48.

Lot Essay

Probably a view along the Rhine near Arnhem, Nijmegen or Elten that Van Goyen saw during his trip along that river in 1650/51 (see also the following lot in this sale). A copy after this is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon.

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