Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)

A landscape with buildings and three windswept willows in the centre foreground

Details

Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)
A landscape with buildings and three windswept willows in the centre foreground
pen and brown ink
10.6 x 17.8 cm.

Provenance

Henri Destailleur (1822-1893) (according to an inscription on the back of the mount; 'tres beau dessin de Jacob [crossed and replaced by Salomon] / Ruysdael / provient de la collection Detailleur').
Prince Wladimir Nikolaevich Argoutinsky-Dolgoroukoff (1874-1941) (L. 2602d); R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 27 March 1925, lot 383 (as Esaias van de Velde, sold for 30 florins).

Literature

J.G. van Gelder, 'Pennetegninger af Jan van Goyen', Kunstmuseets Aarsskrift, XXIV, 1937, p. 39, 44, no. 17, pl. 39.
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen: 1596-1656: ein Oeuvreverzeichnis, Amsterdam, 1972, I, no. 36.

Exhibited

Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal and Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum, Jan van Goyen, 1960, no. 56 (catalogue by J.N. van Wessem).

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Lot Essay

Van Goyen was a pupil of Esaias van de Velde (1587-1630) until 1618 when Esaias left Haarlem and moved to The Hague. The drawings made by van Goyen between 1617 and 1620 show the influence of his master in both subject matter and style. The present drawing with its delicate penwork can be compared, for example, to van de Velde's Landscape with shepherds and their flock and travellers on a road near a house, dated 1619, previously in the I.Q. van Regteren Altena collection and sold at Christie's, Amsterdam, 10 December 2014, lot 142 (G.S. Keyes, Esaias van de Velde 1587-1630, Doornspijk, 1984, no. D 136, pl. 88). It may also be compared to another drawing by van de Velde, A river landscape with a shepherd driving sheep up a rise towards houses, which is dated 1620 (lot 201 in the present sale).

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