A windmill on a bastion

Details

Jan van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)
A windmill on a bastion
with number '2' (upper right)
black chalk, gray wash
3 7/8 x 6 in. (9.2 x 15.5 cm)

Provenance

Possibly part of the sketchbook that belonged to Andrew Geddes, A.R.A. (1783-1844), London, by 1845; Christie's, London, 8-14 April 1845, lot 361.
Johnson Neale.
T. Mark Hovell, London.
Thomas Dinwiddy; Sotheby's, London, 3-4 July 1918, lot 124 (£610 to Colnaghi).
with Colnaghi, London.
with Frederik Muller (possibly bought for Mensing, who dismembered the album).
Anton Wilhelmus Mari Mensing (1866-1936); Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 27 April 1937, lot 218 (fl. 7200 to Hirschmann).
A. Mayer, The Hague and New York.
with Dr. Karl Lilienfeld, New York, 1957 (the album dispersed).
with C.F. de Wild, New York, 20 February 1964.
C. Goldschmidt; Christie's, New York, 11-12 January 1995, lot 221.

Literature

Verslagen omtrent 's Rijks Verzamelingen van Geschiedenis der Kunst, XVIII, 1895/1896, pp. 64-66.
C. Dodgson, 'A Dutch Sketchbook of 1650', The Burlington Magazine, XXXII, 1918, p. 234-240, ill. (the sketchbook).
C. Dodgson, 'A Dutch Sketchbook of 1650', The Burlington Magazine, XXXIII, 1918, p. 112 (the sketchbook).
C. Dodgson, 'A Dutch Sketchbook of 1650', The Burlington Magazine, LXVI, 1935, p. 284 (the sketchbook).
H.-U. Beck, 'Jan van Goyens Handzeichnungen als Vorzeichnungen', Oud-Holland, LXXII, 1957, pp. 241-250, ill. (the sketchbook).
F. Gorissen, Conspectus Cliviae, Kleve, 1964, pp. 84-86, ill.
H.-U. Beck, 'Jan van Goyen am Deichbruch von Houtewael (1651)', Oud-Holland, LXXXI, 1966, pp. 20/33, ill. (the sketchbook).
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656. Ein Œuvreverzeichnis. Katalog der Handzeichnungen, I. Amsterdam, 1972, no. 847/2.

Exhibited

The Hague, Mauritshuis, 1895 (the sketchbook).
The Hague, Maurtishuis, 1918 (the sketchbook).

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Lot Essay

This particularly expressive and rapid study is the second drawing from a sketchbook which previously contained around 200 drawings (dismembered by Anton Mensing), executed by Van Goyen in 1650-1651. In these sheets, the artist recorded views which he observed during his journey to Cleve and Arnhem (1650) as well as Haarlem and Amsterdam (1651). Besides being of topographical importance, the sheets from the album shed light on the artist’s practice, as a number of them served as studies for more worked-up drawings which in turn in some cases served as studies for paintings (for examples, see Beck, op. cit., nos. 14, 20, 21, 23, 96, ill.). For another drawing from this sketchbook, see lot 61.

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