Lot number 3519 - Auction 146
VOR EINER BAUFÄLLIGEN BAUERNHÜTTE

JAN VAN GOYEN 1596 Leiden - 1656 The Hague IN FRONT OF A DILAPIDATED PEASANT'S COTTAGE Oil on wooden panel. 16 x 22 cm (F.. 28,5 x 35 cm). Monogrammed and dated in the centre right: 'VG (alloyed) 1630'. Verso: Inscribed on the wooden panel: 'No.6'. Part. min. old rest.. Frame. Beck lists an identical variant of the painting offered here, also monogrammed and dated 1630, under number 1141. Beck also mentions the same peasant's cottage in a wash chalk drawing attributed to van Goyen in the museum of Besancon. See: Beck, Hans-Ulrich: Jan van Goyen 1596-1656. Catalogue of paintings, volume II, Amsterdam 1973, p. 498. no. 1141. Provenance: Rhenish private collection.