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Lot 49
Jan van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)
A dune landscape with travellers on a path in a thunder storm, a tondo
Closed6 October 2021
Price Realised
EUR 93,750
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Specialist note
This charming, early tondo is accompanied by a letter from Dr. H-.U. Beck, dated 22 May 2000, in which Beck points out that he is not familiar with any other picture by the artist depicting a thunder storm akin. Beck states the composition reminds him of the drawings with thunder storms and downpour by Esaias van de Velde of 1628-29, for instance in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin of 1628 and in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge of 1629.
It has been suggested this tondo might be a pendant to Van Goyen’s Winter landscape with figures on a frozen river, diam. 12.2 cm., recently acquired by the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg (inv. ГЭ-10605).
It has been suggested this tondo might be a pendant to Van Goyen’s Winter landscape with figures on a frozen river, diam. 12.2 cm., recently acquired by the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg (inv. ГЭ-10605).