Jan van Goyen
Castle by a River
164766 x 97 cm
Oil on wood
Signed and dated, lower left, on boat: V Goyen 1647
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Edith Neuman de Végvár, in honor of her husband, Charles Neuman de Végvár, 1964
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Beck G 687
Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 53
Provenance
?private collection, England, in 1792
?private collection, until 1912
estate sale, Christie's, London, 26 April 1912, nr. 102, to Pawsey & Payne
?with Pawsey & Payne, London, from 1912
Sir Samuel Hoare, London, until 1934
sale, Sotheby's, London, 21 November 1934, nr. 99, to Collings
with Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, in 1935, sold to Neuman
Baron Karl Neuman (Charles Neuman de Végvár), Vienna, later Greenwich, Conn., by 1938–died 1959
seized in Paris by the Nazis, held at Alt Aussee and at Munich collecting point, returned to France 30 October 1946, restituted
his widow, Mrs. Charles (Edith) Neuman de Végvár, Greenwich, 1959–64
life interest, 1964–died 1984
Other works by Jan van Goyen
Skaters near a Village
c. 1625
c. 1625
The Haarlemmermeer
1656
1656
Polder Landscape
1644
1644
The Valkhof in Nijmegen
1641
1641
Dune landscape with an Inn
1631
1631