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AT-00000727Fishing Boats off an Estuary
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left on boat: VG 1653
Provenance
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.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age, September 28, 2019-January 5, 2020.
Publications
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.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jan van Goyen (Dutch, 1596–1656)
- Date
- 1633
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 36 × 57.8 cm (14 1/8 × 22 3/4 in.); Framed: 57.2 × 78.1 × 5.1 cm (22 1/2 × 30 3/4 × 2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on panel
- Style
- 17th Century
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Accession no.
- 1933.1078
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