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River landscape with castle and ferry / Castle on the Scheldt / Mighty rock castle
Lost Art-ID
437926
Artist / Creator
Goyen, Jan Josephsz van
Birth
1596.01.13, Leiden
Death
1656.04.27, Den Haag
Place of activity
Leiden; Haarlem; Den Haag
Title
River landscape with castle and ferry / Castle on the Scheldt / Mighty rock castle
Dating
1652 (1646)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Panel / painted
Measures
66 (63) cm x 97 (95) cm
Inventory number
19 (Nachlaß Feist)→ 6 (Nachlaß Feist)
Description
signed and dated.
‘In the centre on the far bank; a bridge provides access from the right. The right bank is steep and rises from the left background from the plain to the right. On the far right, on the heights, a church tower; on the left in the background a village on the river. A man with two horses and a dog on a promontory in front left; a large rowing boat is being loaded with sacks; a barge with four people behind it on the right. Other boats in the middle of the river or near the right bank. Labelled on a large rowing boat (left foreground): VG 1652.’ (Beck)
‘In the centre on the far bank; a bridge provides access from the right. The right bank is steep and rises from the left background from the plain to the right. On the far right, on the heights, a church tower; on the left in the background a village on the river. A man with two horses and a dog on a promontory in front left; a large rowing boat is being loaded with sacks; a barge with four people behind it on the right. Other boats in the middle of the river or near the right bank. Labelled on a large rowing boat (left foreground): VG 1652.’ (Beck)
Provenance
Arthur Kay Collection, Glasgow; Oskar Huldschinsky Collection, Berlin; Feist Collection, Berlin; Dr [Gerd?] Lanz, Amsterdam, 1941 (after May) (through Galerie Fischer and Galerie Moos); M. Schultheß, Basel, 1942; Nathan Katz, Basel; Auction Succession N[athan] K[atz], Paris, 1951; Collection Dr H. A. Wetzlar, Amsterdam, 1952; S. Nystadt, The Hague, 1953; Mathiesen, London 1956; Douwes Bros, Amsterdam, 1956; private collection, Germany, Saar region, 1956;
2014 amicable agreement
2014 amicable agreement
Status
amicable settlement
Literature / Source
Hans-Ulrich Beck: Jan van Goyen. 1596-1656. Katalog der Gemälde. II. Amsterdam 1973. Katalognummer 707; Georg Swarzenski: Frau Hermine Feist Collection. 5, Bergstrasse, Wannsee. S.3. In: Getty Research Institute. Inventory of the Duveen Brother Records, Box 242, Folder 5, Feist Collection; Literaturarchiv Marbach, Nachlaß Feist; Galerie Charpentier: Succession N[athan] K[atz]. (Deuxieme Vente). Importants Tableaux Anciens. Auktion 25.04.1951. Paris 1951. Kat.Nr. 26, mit Abb.
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