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Jan van Goyen - Old Tower on a River Bank

Auction 1245 - overview Cologne
16.05.2024, 11:01 - Old Masters and 19th Century, Part I
Estimate: 30.000 € - 40.000 €
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Jan van Goyen

Old Tower on a River Bank

Oil on panel. 38 x 52 cm.
Signed lower right on the rowing boat: VG 1646.

The present river landscape, dated 1646, is a fine example of the technique that made the landscape painter Jan van Goyen famous: The use of a highly reduced colour palette, the apparent simplicity of which belies a great dramatic effect. This subtle palette of grey, silver and white tones combined with the skilful use of an ochre ground in the darkest areas of the foreground and the sky lends his paintings an almost monochrome appearance.

Provenance

Auction Galerie Fievez, Brussels, 25th June 1923, no. 80, with ill. - Belgian private collection.

Literature

H.-U. Beck: Jan van Goyen, Katalog der Gemälde, Amsterdam 1973, vol. II, no. 680 (not illus.).