Jan van Goyen

(Leiden 1596–1656 The Hague)
A dune landscape with figures resting near a group of trees,
oil on panel, 35 x 26.5 cm, framed

Provenance:
with Charles Sedelmeyer, Vienna, 1873, no. 66 (according to literature);
art market, London;
sale, Christie’s, London, 25 April 2001, lot 67 (as Jan van Goyen);
sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 3 October 2001, lot 240 (as Jan van Goyen);
Private collection, Vienna;
sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 11 May 2022, lot 84 (as Jan van Goyen);
where acquired by the present owner

Literature:
H. Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656. Ein Oeuvreverzeichnis in zwei Bänden, Amsterdam, 1973, vol. II, Amsterdam 1973, p. 96, no. 200a (as Jan van Goyen, signed by the artist)

Jan van Goyen was the son of a shoemaker and started as an apprentice in Leiden, the town of his birth. Like many Dutch painters of his time, Jan van Goyen developed his trade as an artist in Haarlem with Esaias van de Velde. His landscape paintings were usually executed quickly with a thin paint surface and a limited palette of pigments.