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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1968.69
People
Jan van Goyen, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1596 - 1656 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
The Beach at Egmond aan Zee
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1649
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296447

Location

Location
Level 2, Room 2300, European Art, 17th–19th century, Seventeenth–Century Dutch and Flemish Art
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and gray wash, with a framing line in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
17 × 28.5 cm (6 11/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower left, black chalk: VG 1649
  • collector's mark: lower right, brown ink: L. 2617 (William Esdaile)
  • inscription: verso, lower left, brown ink: 1803 WE. P48. N144. Van Goyen [L. 2617, William Esdaile]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: Mer
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite, partially erased: 2 [pound sign] -00x-.. / 156.
  • watermark: PD [countermark]
  • inscription: verso, left center, graphite: A 1 1/2

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
William Esdaile, London (L. 2617, with his mark), his sale; [Christie and Manson, London, 18 June 1840, lot 912]. C. F. L. F. von Rumohr, Dresden, his sale; [Robert Julius Köhler, Dresden, 19 October 1846, lot 3504], sold; to Johann Gottlieb Abraham Frenzel, Dresden. C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 28 November 1912; lot 142]. [Victor Koch, New York, 8 February 1923, number 57] sold; to Paul M. Warburg, New York, by descent; to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Grimson, New York, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1968.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Grimson, from the Paul M. Warburg Collection
Accession Year
1968
Object Number
1968.69
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • A. P. A. Vorenkamp and Smith College Museum of Art, "A View of Rynland by Jan van Goyen", Smith College Museum of Art Bulletin (Northampton, MA, June 1942), no. 23, pp. 10-15, pp. 10-15.
  • Wolfgang Stechow, Dutch Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century, Phaidon (London, England, 1966), pl. 203

Exhibition History

  • People at Work: Seventeenth Century Dutch Art, Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, 04/17/1988 - 06/15/1988
  • 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/24/2024 - 02/10/2025

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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