A river landscape with a ferry carrying livestock and peasants

Details

Jan van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)
A river landscape with a ferry carrying livestock and peasants
signed and dated 'VG 1634' (lower centre, recto) with inscriptions 'Jan van Goyen' and '113/37/5' (verso)
black chalk, grey wash
4 1/5 x 7 ½ in. (11.2 x 19.1 cm)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 23-25 June 1885, lot 108.
Anonymous sale; Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 21-22 June 1887, lot 81.
Vincent van Gogh; R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 2-3 December 1913, lot 332.
Anonymous sale; F.A.C. Prestel, Frankfurt am Main, 22-26 November 1927, lot 128.
Anonymous sale; Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, 16.17 May 1935, lot 397.
Carl Meder, Berlin; Reinhold Puppel, Berlin, 8 December 1937, lot 287, pl. V.
Dr. Walter Beck (L. 2603b).
Dr. Hans-Ulrich Beck.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 1 December 1986, lot 66.

Literature

H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656. Ein Œuvreverzeichnis. Katalog der Handzeichnungen, I, Amsterdam, 1972, no. 132, ill.

Exhibited

Leiden, Stedelijk Museum and Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum, Jan van Goyen, 1960, no. 72.

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Lot Essay

While dated drawings from the late period of the Van Goyen's career are numerous (the most productive year being that of 1653, from which around250 drawings survive), early dated drawings are rather scarce. Beck lists only four drawings from 1634, the year in which this sheet was made (see Beck, op. cit., nos. 130-133, ill.).

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