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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1969.55
People
Jan van Goyen, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1596 - 1656 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
River Landscape with Fishing Boats
Other Titles
Alternate Title: River Scene
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1634
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227804

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
91.5 x 133.5 cm (36 x 52 9/16 in.)
frame: 127.4 x 171.9 x 12 cm (50 3/16 x 67 11/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: left: V Goyen 1634 [on gunwhale of boat at left]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul M. Warburg (by 1913?-1932), by descent; to his son, James P. Warburg (1932-1969) bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1969.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of James P. Warburg
Accession Year
1969
Object Number
1969.55
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 190, p. 166, repr.
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)
  • Gedi Sibony, Marjorie B. Cohn, and Emily Rauh Pulitzer, In the Still Epiphany, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, MO, 2012), p. 47

Exhibition History

  • Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10/24/2008 - 10/03/2009

Verification Level

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