Artist
Jan van GoyenDutch, 1596–1656
CultureDutch
Titles
- Kleve: the tower and city wall with ruins of the Cowdeer tower
Date1650–1651
MediumBlack chalk with brush and grey wash on laid paper
DimensionsImage: 3 13/16 × 6 3/16 in. (9.7 × 15.7 cm)
Sheet: 3 13/16 × 6 1/4 in. (9.7 × 15.8 cm)
Sheet: 3 13/16 × 6 1/4 in. (9.7 × 15.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2021.297
Not on view
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Prints and DrawingsObject Type
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, 1650-51 (from the artist’s sketchbook); [see above]; unbound-C.F. Louis de Wild, New York (1900-1987), after 1957; Prof. Dr. Fred P., New York and later Vienna, after 1957-1987; [Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, 1987-1988]; [London, Christie’s, private sale, 2014]; private collection, New York, before 2020; [Mireille Mosler, Ltd., New York, 2020]; purchased by MFAH, 2021.
Exhibition HistoryBound Sketchbook:
The Hague, Mauritshuis, exh. 1895.
The Hague, Mauritshuis, exh. 1918
Unbound Sketchbook
New York, Mireille Mosler, Ltd., Jan van Goyen’s sketchbook, 1650-1651, exh
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: inscribed in brown ink, top right: 35
Verso: inscribed in black ink, top left: ∏... [Illegible]
Verso: inscribed in black ink, top left: ∏... [Illegible]
Recto, top left: Partial watermark (dimensions of the partial watermark: 3cm x 2cm)
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