Fishing Boats off an Estuary

1. Simon Stinstra (died 1782), Haarlem; his sale Van der Schley, etc., Amsterdam, March 26, 1783, lot 50 for 32 guilders to Bouwer [price and buyer according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Frick Art Reference Library, New York]. Etienne Arago [according to the catalogue of the Rothan sale, cited below]; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 8, 1872, lot 32 as Marine for 3,250 francs to Gustave Rothan [price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague; buyer according to Beck 1973]; Gustave Rothan (died 1890), Paris, by 1873 [according to Paul Mantz 1873]; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, May 29–31, 1890, lot 45 as Le Calme plat for 10,000 francs to Durand-Ruel, Paris [price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague; buyer according to a letter from Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy to Charles Stuckey dated December 13, 1994, copy in curatorial file]; Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1890 [according to the letter cited above, the painting was Durand-Ruel, Paris stock no. 423]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago for 10,500 francs, 1890 [according to the letter cited above]; on loan to the Art Institute by 1925; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age, September 28, 2019-January 5, 2020.

• Paul Mantz, “La Galerie de M. Rothan,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 2nd ser., 7 (1873), pp. 286, ill.
• Emil Jacobsen, “Paris. Salle Georges Petit. Versteigerung der Collection Rothan,” Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 14 (1891), p. 250, no. 45.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), p. 180, no. 346.11.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), p. 159, no. 2041.
• G. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 8 (London, 1927), p. 271, no. 1079.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), p. 202.
• Hans-Ulrich Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596–1656, vol. 2 (Amsterdam, 1973), p. 380, no. 489.
• John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York, 1979), p. 150.
• Larry J. Feinberg, “A Brief History of the Old Masters in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Museum Studies 32, 3 (2006), p. 89 n. 3.

A Dune Landscape

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Market near a Canal

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A Romanesque Ruin

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Leper House at Cleves

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Country Fair

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Village on Sunny Hillside

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Panorama

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Boats on Ocean

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