Elegant company shooting birds in an estuary: Design for a title-page

Details

Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (Leyden 1596-1656 The Hague)
Elegant company shooting birds in an estuary: Design for a title-page
signed and dated in a cartouche 'J.V. Goijen. 1653'
black chalk, black chalk framing lines
6 3/8 x 10½ (161 x 268 mm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Paris, 29 March 1900, lot 137 (170 francs to Hamburger).
Georges Ryaux, 1965.
Mr. and Mrs. Christian Aall; Christie's New York, 28 January 1999, lot 103.

Literature

J.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, Amsterdam, 1972, I, no. 334.

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Lot Essay

Possibly a title page for one of the series of large drawings van Goyen made in 1653. A title page for a series of smaller drawings dated the same year and also on the theme of sportsmen is in the Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (H.U. Beck, op. cit., no. 333).

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