Village on Sunny Hillside by Jan van Goyen
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Village on Sunny Hillside

Jan van Goyen · 1650–51

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Possibly A. Geddes; sold Christie’s, April 1845, lot 361 [Dodgson 1935]. Private collection, England, 1879 [Gorissen 1964].  Johnson Neale, London, by 1895 [Gorrisen 1964]; Thomas Mark Hovell (1853–1925), London [Dodgson 1918]. Sold, Sotheby's, London, July 3, 1918, lot 124, to P. and D. Colnaghi, London [Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1980].  W. M. Mensing [or Anton Mensing? ](1866–1936), Amsterdam; sold, Frederick Muller, Amsterdam, Apr. 27–29, 1937, lot 218.  Hirschmann (probably Otto Hirschman, born 1889) [Gorissen 1964]. A. Mayer, New York [Gorissen 1964]. Possibly C. F. Louis deWild (1900–1987), New York [according to Beck].  Sold by Lilienfeld Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1961.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Leiden, Stedelijk Museum, Jan van Goyen, June 4–July 27, 1960, cat. 107; also Arnheim, Gemeentemuseum, July 31–Sept. 26, 1960.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 250, 253 (ill.), 300 cat. 99, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Literature

Published references

  • Verslagen omtrent’s Rijks Verzamelingen van Geschiedenis der Kunst XVIII (1895/96), pp. 64–65.
  • Campbell Dodgson, “A Dutch Sketchbook of 1650,” The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 32 (June 1918), pp. 234–240.
  • Abraham Bredius response to Campbell Dodgson, “A Dutch Sketchbook of 1650,” The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 33 (1918), p. 112.
  • Campbell Dodgson, “A Dutch Sketchbook of 1650,” The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 66 (1935), p. 284.
  • Hans-Ulrich Beck, “Jan van Goyens Handzeichnungen als Vorzeichnungen,” Oud-Holland 72 (1957), pp. 241–50.
  • Friedrich Gorissen, Conspectus Cliviæ (Kleve: Boss, 1964), p. 85–86.
  • Hans-Ulrich Beck, “Jan van Goyen am Deichbruch von Houtewael,” Oud-Holland 81 (1966), pp. 20–23. [seems to describe sheets from the same sketchbook but not those in AIC collection]
  • Hans-Ulrich Beck, Ein Skizzenbuch von Jan van Goyen (The Hague: L. J. C. Boucher, 1966), p. 5.
  • Hans-Ulrich Beck,  Jan van Goyen, 1596–1656 (Amsterdam: Van Gendt, 1972), 1: 285–86, 293, 297, 313, nos. 847/42, 75, 220A, 221, and 270A.
  • Important Old Master Paintings and Drawings, auc. cat. (New York: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Jan. 9, 1980), lot. 50.
  • Edwin Buijsen, The Sketchbook of Jan van Goyen from the Bredius-Kronig Collection (The Hague: Foundation Bredius Genootschap, 1993), p. 12.
  • Christiaan Vogelaar, Jan van Goyen (Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 1996), p. 28.

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