Jan van Goyen - WINTER LANDSCAPE - image-1

Lot 1228 Dα

Jan van Goyen - WINTER LANDSCAPE

Auction 995 - overview Cologne
12.05.2012, 00:00 - Old Masters and 19th Centuries Paintings
Estimate: 180.000 € - 220.000 €
Result: 268.400 € (incl. premium)

Jan van Goyen

WINTER LANDSCAPE

Oil on panel (parquetted). Diameter 25,2 cm.
J. v. Goien 162(.).

This early winter landscape by Jan van Goyen captivates by its clear, sunny atmosphere. On the frozen river that is flanked by buildings, figures amuse themselves on the ice.
Hans-Ulrich Beck published it in the first volume of his catalogue raisonné from 1973. There he indicates an incorrect diameter of 35 cm; in fact the diameter of our picture is 25,2 cm. The measurements are exact the some to those of a very similar “Summer Landscape“ (lot 1227) by van Goyen, so that these paintings might have been pendantes despite their different provenances.

Provenance

Art dealer van Diemen & Co, Berlin and Amsterdam 1925. - Coll. Mrs. D. D. Fontheim, London (Sale Christie´s, London, 10.4.1981, no. 21) - Private collection, Germany.

Literature

Hans-Ulrich Beck: Jan van Goyen 1596-1656. Ein Oeuvreverzeichnis, vol. II, Amsterdam 1973, p. 7, no. 10.