Jan van Goyen
Estuary Scene with a Distant View of Woudrichem
Estimate
800,000 - 1,200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jan van Goyen
Leiden 1596 - 1656 The Hague
Estuary Scene with a Distant View of Woudrichem
signed on the largest vessel lower left: VG
oil on oak panel
panel: 20 ¼ by 29 in.; 51.4 by 73.7 cm
framed: 27 by 35 ½ in.; 68.6 by 90.2 cm
With Galerie Heinemann, Munich (inv. no. 4915);
From whom acquired by Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, 12 May 1900, for 4,000 francs;
With Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris;
Adolphe Schloss (1842-1910), Paris;
Thence by inheritance to his wife, Lucie Haas Schloss (1858-1938);
Thence by descent to their children and taken to the Château de Chambon, Laguenne, for safekeeping, August 1939;
Confiscated by the German occupation forces on 16 April 1943;
Pre-emptively appropriated by Louvre museum officials and stored in a depot in Sourches (Sarthe), 20 August 1943;
Restituted to the Estate of Adolphe Schloss, Paris, July 1946;
By whom sold, Paris, Charpentier, 5 December 1951, lot 25, for 4,000,000 francs;
Where acquired by a private collector, England;
By whose descendent anonymously sold ("The Property of a Gentleman"), London, Sotheby's, 11 December 2003, lot 67;
Where acquired by Richard Green, London;
From whom acquired by the late collector, 2004.
Illustrated Catalogue of the Seventh Series of 100 Paintings by Old Masters... Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris 1901, p. 18, cat. no. 12, reproduced;
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. VIII, London 1927, p. 263, cat. no. 1056;
H-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, Amsterdam 1973, vol. II, p. 413, cat. no. 919, reproduced.
