Jan van Goyen
(Leiden 1596 - 1656 Den Haag)
"Dune Landscape with Wagons halted by a Farm"
on panel: 38,5 x 55,5 cm
signed with monogram and dated 'VG 1632' (l.l. on the gate)
Provenance
Max Kann, Paris; Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris; his sale, Berlin, November 1897, lot 13;
* coll. Paul Delaroff, Saint Petersburg, probaby collection sale Paris 1914 (Drouot);
with Wildenstein, Paris, 1950; Myrtil Frank, New York;
with J.R. Bier, Haarlem, 1962 (in his catalogue, no.10); collection K.W.D. Gratama, Heemstede;
The Countess Van Limburg Stirum, by whom sold, London Christie's, June 1964, lot no.100, to A. Duits;
acquired by a private collector at Duits, 1964, thence by descent;
with Douwes Fine Art, Amsterdam by 2008; sold to a private collection English collection
* Coll. Paul Delaroff (St. Petersburg 1852-1913):
Since the time of Peter the Great every new generation of art collectors and amateurs in Russia has had a strong interest in the European old masters, especially for those of the Dutch and Flemish Schools. Besides the famous collections of masterpieces in the Hermitage and the imperial palaces in and around St. Petersburg, there were many private collections of Dutch and Flemish art belonging to aristocrats and merchants. From the late 18th century until the Revolution of November 1917, each successive generation of art lovers in Russia was active and ambitious in the collecting of old masters, mainly Italian but also Dutch and Flemish masters of the 17th and 18th centuries. Typically, these collections would at a given moment be sold in estate auctions or via art dealers in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and various provincial centres. Some Russian collections were even sold in Europe, as the famous collection of Paul Delaroff, which was sold in Paris in 1914. (Codart, Prof. Vadim Sadkov).
Russian collector and specialist in Flemish and Dutch art Paul Delaroff, had been private counsellor to Emperor Nicolas II of Russia, Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov (1868-17 July 1918). Nicholas II abdicated following the February revolution of 1917 during which he and his family were imprisoned and finally, at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Nicholas II, his wife and children, the family's medical doctor, the Emperor's footman, maidservant and the cook were killed in the same room by the Bolsheviks on the night of 16/17 July 1918.
C. Hofstede de Groot, 'Catalogue Raisonné', Vol.VIII, 1927, pp. 95-96, no.358, p.113, no 424;
H.U. Beck, 'Jan van Goyen', Vol.II , 1973, p. 452, cat.no.1006, with ill. and Vol. III, 1987, p.259, no.1006
By the early 1630s, Jan van Goyen favoured dune landscapes seen from a low view point, with trees and buildings rising to the left or right. A similar wagon loaded with passengers is shown in two other pictures of that same year, one in the Westfries Museum, Hoorn, the other in the York City Art Gallery (Beck, op. cit. 1973, p 453, nos.1008 & 1009
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Category
Old Masters 14th - 18th century
landscape