Jan van Goyen

Leiden 1596 - The Hague 1656


View of Emmerich

Oil on wood, 65.4 x 96.7 cm
Signed lower center on ferry: "VGoyen 1645"


Sold To

The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA in 1959


Provenance

Robert, Earl Grosvenor (1820), later Marquess of Westminster, London;
Duke of Westminster, London; (sale: Sotheby's, London, June 14, 1959, no. 7);
(Leonard F. Koetser, London, 1959 Autumn Exhibition, no. 4), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1959.

Literature

Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” May 26, 1960, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives ;
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 122 ;
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 122 ;
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 156 ;
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Mentioned: p. 236; Reproduced: p. 237


Exhibition

London, British Institution, 1841, cat. no. 211 (called Nimiguen.) ;
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1871, cat. no. 20. ;
London, Royal Academy, 1871, cat no. 251. ;
CMA, 1973: "Dutch Art and Life in the 17th Century," (no catalogue). ;
CMA, February 17-March 21, 1982: "Visions of Landscape:East and West", (no catalogue). ;
Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art (July 10-September 2, 1973). ;
Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).