DrawingsDutch17th century

Landscape with Cottages and Figures

c. 1650

Artists

Jan van GoyenArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper

Culture

Dutch

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

actual: 9.7 x 15.8 cm (3 13/16 x 6 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Possibly Andrew Geddes, A.R.A., London; his sale [Christie and Manson, London, 8 April 1845, lot 361?]. Possibly loan to, Mauritshuis, The Hague. Mr. Johnson Neale. T. Mark Hovell, London, 1918. [Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1981, lot 124], sold; to [P. & D. Colnaghi, London]. A.W.M. Mensing, Amsterdam, his sale; [Frederick Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 29 April 1937], sold; to Otto Hirschman, sold; to A. Mayer, The Hague and New York. Van Dieman-Lilienfeld Gallery, 1957, sold; to Marian Harris Phinney, 1960, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962.

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