Jan van Goyen
A village with windmills seen from a distance

A village with windmills seen from a distance

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A village with windmills seen from a distance
Photograph © The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tina C. Tan, photographer
ArtistDutch, 1596–1656
CultureDutch
Titles
  • A village with windmills seen from a distance
Date1650–1651
MediumBlack chalk with brush and grey wash on laid paper
DimensionsImage: 3 3/4 × 5 15/16 in. (9.6 × 15.1 cm)
Sheet: 3 7/8 × 6 1/4 in. (9.9 × 15.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment
Object number2021.298
Non exposé

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ProvenanceSketchbook, 1650-1651 (partial watermark of the arms of Lorraine and the overall dimensions of the sketchbook were 105 x 160 mm.)

Provenance of bound sketchbook:
The Artist, 1650-1651; Possibly Andrew Geddes (1738-1844), London, 1845; his sale, London, Christie’s, 8-14 April 1845, lot 361; private collection, England, 1879; Johnson Neale, London, by 1895; Thomas Mark Hovell (1853-1925), London, June 1918, Thomas Dinwiddy; his sale, London, Sotheby’s, 3 July 1918, lot 124 [sold for 610 GBP]; [London, P. and D. Colnaghi & Obach (stock no. A1700)]; [Frederick Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 15 August 1918 [sold for 800 GBP]; Anton Messing (1866-1936), Amsterdam; his sale, Frederik Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 27 April 1937, lot 218 [sold for 7,200 florins to Hirschmann]; [Most likely Dr. Otto Heinrich Hirschmann (1898-1962), a branch manager at art dealership Van Biemen & Co. and independent art dealer from 1934 onwards]Adolf Mayer, the Hague, New York; [Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York, 1957]…

The artist, 1650-1651 (from the artist’s sketchbook); [see above]; unbound- Curtis O. Baer, New Rochelle, 1964; [London, Christie’s, private sale, 2014]; private collection, New York, before 2020; [Mireille Mosler, Ltd., New York, 2020]; purchased by MFAH, 2021.
Exhibition HistoryThe Hague, Mauritshuis, exh. 1895.
The Hague, Mauritshuis, exh. 1918
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: inscribed in brown ink, top right: 140
Verso: inscribed in black ink, top left: T... [Illegible]
Verso: Collector's mark in black ink, bottom right: B [Lugt L.3366 Baer, Curtis Otto]

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