The third and final auction of paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker will take place in Amsterdam, on 14th November and will be held in Christie's saleroom on the Cornelis Schuytstraat, not far from the Goudstikker Gallery on the Herengracht 458.

This sale will also feature landscape paintings of two pioneers of the 'tonal' school- Jan van Goyen and Salomon van Ruysdael. Jan van Goyen's River landscape with a village, painted circa 1643 (fig. 1 ) is a characteristic work by the artist with its limited palette producing atmospheric effects in the landscape for which the artist is most well-known. It dates to a period when van Goyen was under the influence of Pieter Molijn and Salomon van Ruysdael. Landscape with riders near Amersfoort, by Salomon van Ruysdael (fig. 2 ) shows an extensive landscape with the town, recognizable by the church, Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk, and its distinctive looking tower, nicknamed the 'Lange Jan'.

Portraits appear again in this sale as well, most impressively with Thomas de Keyser's Portrait of a young man (fig. 3 ). In it a boy, probably painted on his Grand Tour of Italy, is surrounded by antique sculpture, including Hercules Farnese. These antique works of art would have been widely known in Northern Europe from the engravings of Hendrik Goltzius. The full-length format used so often by de Keyser was introduced in his double-portrait, Constantijn Huygens and his clerk, (London, National Gallery, 1627).

Other highlights include winter landscapes by Jan van Kessel and Philips Wouwerman; wooded landscapes by Jan Wynants, Gillis Caesz. de Hondecoeter and Moyses van Uyttenbroek; portraits by Hendrik Gerritsz. Pot (fig. 4 ), Jan Anthonisz. van Ravesteyn and Barend Graat; still-lives by Abraham van Beyeren, Jan van Kessel I and Juriaen van Streeck; and genre scenes by Willem de Poorter, Anthonie Palamedesz, Adriaen van Ostade.