Live Auction 17994Old Master & British Drawings Including Works from the Collection of Jean Bonna
Jan van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)
Lot 56 PROPERTY FROM A SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTION

Jan van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)

A river landscape with a ferry carrying livestock and peasants

Closed28 January 2020

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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)

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.

Specialist note

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.).