About the Artwork
Landscape with Figures
1631
Jan van Goyen
1596-1656
Dutch
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Black chalk and gray wash on buff laid paper
Sheet: 4 3/8 × 7 1/2 inches (11.1 × 19.1 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
38.19
Public Domain
Markings
Signed and dated, in black chalk, lower left: VG 1631
Inscribed, in pencil, center, verso: 994 [in circle]
Watermark: [tulip in a vase]
Provenance
unidentified collector's mark on verso at lower left.April 20, 1857, Count A. Thibaudeau (Paris, France) sale, no. 341;
Louis Deglatigny (Rouen, France) [red collector's mark) L. Suppl. 1768a on recto at lower right].
May 28, 1937, Jean Charpentier (Paris, France) sale, no. 45 [purchased by Otto Werheimer, Paris, France];
Paul Wescher (Berlin, Germany);
1938-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Richardson, E.P. "The Landscape of Jan van Goyen." Bulletin of the DIA 19, 2 (1939): pp. 12-17 (fig. 2).
Beck, Hans-Ulrich. Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656. Amsterdam, 1972.
Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, p. 29, no. 8 (ill.).
From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 9.
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Jan van Goyen, Landscape with Figures, 1631, black chalk and gray wash on buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 38.19.
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