Jan van Goyen
View of The Hague from the Northwest
164766 x 96.2 cm
Oil on wood
Signed and dated lower center: VGOYEN 1647
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
From the Collection of Rita and Frits Markus, Bequest of Rita Markus, 2005
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Beck G 328
Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 54
Provenance
with Matthiesen, London, in 1953
with Knoedler, London and New York, in 1955
with Edward Speelman, London, in 1963
with J.R. Bier, Haarlem, until 1966
Sidney J. van den Bergh, Wassenaar, 1966–at least 1968
with Cramer Oude Kunst, The Hague
private collection, in 1982
Frits and Rita Markus, New York, until his death 1996
Rita Markus, New York, 1996–died 2005
Other works by Jan van Goyen
Winter landscape
1626
1626
Peasants resting before an inn
early 1640s
early 1640s
The rest before an inn
1643
1643
View on the Kaag
1655
1655
Panoramic View of a River with Low-Lying Meadows
in or shortly after 1644
in or shortly after 1644