A river landscape with a village beyond

Details

Jan van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)
A river landscape with a village beyond
oil on panel, a fragment
12 x 14 3/8 in. (30.5 x 36.5 cm.)

Provenance

Friedrich Frey-Fürst (1882-1953), Der Bürgenstock, Lucerne, and by decent to his son
Fritz Frey, Der Bürgenstock, Lucerne; Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1996, lot 70, where acquired by the present owner.

Literature

F. Frey, Der Bürgenstock: Kunst, Geschichte, Tradition, Hoteldorf, Zürich and Stuttgart, 1967, pp. 72-73, illustrated.

Lot Essay

Beck confirmed the attribution of the painting at the time of the 1996 sale and dated it to circa 1623-24. He further noted that most of van Goyen's early river landscapes are on long horizontal panels and suggested that this was the left-hand portion of such a composition.

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