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Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)
Lot 44

Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)

A road on the outskirts of a town; and View of a hamlet by a road

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Jan Josefsz. van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)
A road on the outskirts of a town; and View of a hamlet by a road
inscribed 'tot Noord wijck' (i)
black chalk, the first with brown ink framing lines, watermark Strasburg lily
4¾ x 9½ in. (12 x 24.1 cm.) (i); 4 3/8 x 8¾ in. (11.2 x 22.4 cm.) (ii)
2

(i) Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 25 November 1991, lot 26.
(ii)General George Catchmade Morgan; his daugher, Sophia Pollard.
with Colnaghi, London, 1976.
H.R. Bijl; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 17 November 1993, lot 11.

Specialist note

The second drawing comes from an album Beck dates to circa 1627-29 which depicts views near Leiden, where van Goyen was living at the time. The album was dispersed around 1978.