Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002351Panorama
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, upper right, in pen and light brown ink: "270"
Provenance
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.
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. 100, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Publications
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.
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
- 1650–51
- Medium
- Black chalk, with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 9.8 × 15.7 cm (3 7/8 × 6 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Worcester Sketch Fund Income
- Accession no.
- 1961.381
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