Jan van Goyen

Leiden 1596 - The Hague 1656

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The Beach at Scheveningen

Oil on Canvas, 130 x 190 cm

Signed and Dated on a dark swell of ground at bottom centre: IVGOYEN 1642

ENQUIRIES

Provenance

Newbury (Hampshire), Highclere Castle, Collection of Henry George Alfred Marius Victor Francis Herbert, 6^th Earl of Carnarvon (1898-1987);
His sale, London Sotheby’s, 3 February 1954, lot 60, ill. on frontispice;
With Daan Cevat (1913-1990), London, 1954;
Collection Jan Richard van Reekum (1897-1963), Laren;
By descent, France;
Peter Pappot Art Gallery, Amsterdam, 2013;
With Douwes Fine Art Gallery, Amsterdam, 2014;
Private Collection, United Kingdom, since June 2014.

Literature

Dr. H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656, Vol. II, Katalog der Gemälde, 1973, pp. 422-423, no. 944, ill. (with mention of a smaller, partial copy of the picture);
G. de Beer, The Golden Age of Dutch Marine Painting, The Inder Rieden Collection, Leiden 2019, Vol. II, no. 16, pp. 376-389, reproduced.

Exhibition

In de Ban van de Zee, De Gouden Eeuw van de Nederlandse marineschiderkunst, De Inder Rieden Collectie, Museum Bredius, The Hague, 10 December 2019- 1 March 2020, no. 35, reproduced.