A Castle by a River Artist: Jan van Goyen (Dutch, 1596–1656)

1647

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art
Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

unframed: 14 3/8 × 21 7/8 in. (36.5 × 55.6 cm)

Credit Line

Bequest of Dr. Herbert and Monika Schaefer

Accession Number

2020.37.14

Culture

Dutch

Period

17th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
With Dr. Curt Benedict & Co. GmbH, Berlin, 1926. Possibly art market, 1941 [see note 1]. Sale, Sotheby's, London, June 24, 1970, lot 57; sold to H. Chancellor (£12,000). Private Collection, Zurich, 1971. With Galerie Sanct. Lucas, Vienna, 1972. With Galerie Kurt Müllenmeister, Solingen; probably sold to Dr. Herbert Schaefer (1910-2011) and Monika Schaefer (née Winter, died 2019), Malaga, Spain, by 1977 (on loan to the Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, Calif., 1977–78; on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven., Conn., 1981–2019); bequeathed to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2019


Notes: [1] In 1941, van de Waal publishes the painting as with ‘Kunsthandel’ (art dealer); this information is repeated in Dobzrycka, 1966, citing de Waal. The identity and location of the dealer and source of this information is at present unknown, but research remains ongoing.

This work appears on our "Artworks with Nazi-Era Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.
Bibliography
  • Joachim Pissarro, Saints, Sinners, and Scenery: European Genre and Landscape Paintings from the Collection of Herbert and Monika Schaefer, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 13-14, ill
  • Collection: Dr. Herbert & Monika Schaefer, Selected Works, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Mountain View Press, 1998), 51-53, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

landscapes (representations)

Subject

boats castles clouds rivers ships

Signed

Signed and dated on boat, lower left: VG 1647.

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