Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009486About the Artwork
Jan van Goyen’s deceptively simple paintings record remarkably realistic impressions of weather, space, and the shifting interactions of land, water, light, and air. He worked with swift, intuitive brushstrokes and a limited range of colors: gray, brown, cool blues, and earthy greens. The artist often went on sketching trips along the Rhine River, visiting cities such as Arnhem, or the German city of Emmerich, depicted here. In the foreground, a shallow boat ferries passengers and horse-drawn wagons across the river.
Inscriptions
Signed lower center on ferry: "VGoyen 1645"
Provenance
Robert, Earl Grosvenor (1820), later Marquess of Westminster, London; Duke of Westminster, London; (sale: Sotheby's, London, June 14, 1959, no. 7); [Leonard F. Koetser, London, 1959 Autumn Exhibition, no. 4), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1959.
Exhibition history
Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973). Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jan van Goyen (Dutch, 1596–1656)
- Date
- 1645
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- Framed: 105.5 x 136 x 9.5 cm (41 9/16 x 53 9/16 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 65.4 x 96.7 cm (25 3/4 x 38 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 1959.351
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