Lot 19
  • 19

Jan Josefsz. van Goyen

Estimate
18,000 - 22,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • a group of covered wagons and horsemen before a country inn
  • Black chalk and grey wash, within grey ink framing lines;
    signed with initials and dated in black chalk: VG 1653;
    bears pencil numbering, verso: No 9

Provenance

F.C.Th. Baron van Isendoorn à Blois,
his sale, Amsterdam, C.F. Roos, 19 August 1879, lot 56 (25 fl, to Muller);
W. Pitcairn Knowles,
his sale, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller & Co., 25 June 1895, lot 278 (18 fl, to Coblenz);
sale, Paris, 11 April 1924, lot 96, reproduced (3,000 fr);
H.E. ten Cate;
with C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, December 1964, cat. no. 53 

Literature

D. Hannema, Catalogue of the H.E. ten Cate Collection, Rotterdam 1955, p. 132, no. 237;
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, Amsterdam 1972, vol. I, p. 145, no. 424, reproduced

Condition

Framed. Some pale foxing, but otherwise the condition is fine and the medium strong and fresh.
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