Details
Jan van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)
A chapel on the bank of an estuary
signed 'VG' (lower center, on the boat)
oil on panel
13 ¾ x 12 ¼ in. (35 x 31.1 cm.)
Provenance
Jacob Klein, Frankfurt am Main; his sale, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, 31 October 1911, lot 13.
Rudolf Bauer, Frankfurt am Main.
with Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam, 1928.
J.H.J. Mellaart, London.
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1930.
Anonymous sale; Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 7 April 1970, lot 55.
with Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, by 1981.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 12 December 1984, lot 59.
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, by 1985.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 11 January 1989, lot 188, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1927, VIII, p. 239, no. 967.
Der Cicerone, XXI, 1929, p. 529, illustrated.
Die Weltkunst, XL, 15 March 1970, p. 327, illustrated.
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, Amsterdam, 1973, II, p. 96, no. 202, illustrated; III, Doornspijk, 1987, p. 164, no. 202.
Exhibited
Frankfurt am Main, Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Ausstellung von Meisterwerken alter Malerei aus Privatbesitz, Summer 1925, no. 92.
Chemnitz, G. Gerstenberger, Holländer-Ausstellung, 1929.
Amsterdam, P. de Boer, Catalogus no. 2 van oude schilderijen en teekeningen in het bezit van de N.V. Kunsthandel P. De Boer, May-June 1930, no. 59, as dated.
Vienna, Galerie Sanct Lucas, Gemälde alter Meister, Winter 1981-1982, no. 8.
Maastricht, P. de Boer, Pictura, 23-31 March 1985.
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