A dune landscape with figures conversing before a row of cottages

Details

JAN JOSEFSZ. VAN GOYEN (LEIDEN 1596-1656 THE HAGUE)
A dune landscape with figures conversing before a row of cottages
signed and dated 'J.V. Goyen 1628' (lower left)
oil on panel
13 3⁄8 x 22 in. (34 x 55.9 cm.)

Provenance

Dr. Roland Belicha, Paris (according to an old label on the reverse).
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6 June 1984, lot 22.
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam by 1984.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 11 January 1989, lot 127.
Private collection, France, by 1987.
Anonymous sale, [Property from a Private Collection]; Sotheby's, New York, 27 January 2006, lot 239.

Literature

H.-U. Beck, Jan Van Goyen, IIII, Doornspijk, 1987, p. 267, no. 1069A, with erroneous measurements.

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Lot Essay

Hans-Ulrich Beck notes a copy of the present composition, formerly in the collection of Reverand Peter Radley, was sold at Sotheby's London on 8 December 1976 (lot 8) with an attribution of Pieter Moyln (loc. cit.).

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