(Leiden 1596 – 1656 The Hague)

Figures before an inn along a wayside. 1633.

Oil on panel.

Signed and dated lower centre: V GOYEN 1633.

35.8 x 57.3 cm.

Provenance:
- Collection of Mme Calmon, Hamburg.
- Auktion Lepke, Berlin, Sammlung Calmon aus Hamburg, 9.10.1894, Lot 31.
- Auktion Lepke, Berlin, 5.4.1898, Lot 48.
- Goudstikker Collection, Amsterdam, 1926.
- Kunsthandel Galerie D. Heinemann, Munich, 1928.
- Kurt Walter Bastitz Collection, 1929.
- Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, c. 1930.
- European private collection.
- Christie’s sale, London, 19.4.1996, Lot 131.
- European private collection.

Literature:
Beck, Hans-Ulrich: Jan van Goyen 1596 – 1656. Ein Oeuvreverzeichnis, vol. 2, Amsterdam 1973, cat. no. 1013, p. 455.


Recently rediscovered in a private collection, the present landscape, signed and dated 1633, is both in its composition and execution a characteristic work from the oeuvre of Jan van Goyen from the 1630s, when the artist broke away from the influence of his teacher Esaias van de Velde (1587 - 1630) and formed his own style with atmospheric dune landscapes.

Comparable landscapes from this period include "Dünenlandschaft mit Zaunstück" in the Schlossmuseum in Gotha (inv. no. 237, oil on panel, 30 x 50 cm, monogrammed and dated 1631, see Beck, Hans-Ulrich: Jan van Goyen 1596- 1656, Amsterdam 1973, vol. II, cat. no. 1092, p. 483) and "Sandige Landstrasse mit Wagenspuren" in the Yale University Art Gallery (inv. no. 1972.96, oil on panel, 31.4 x 53.3 cm, monogrammed and dated 1633, see ibid., cat. no. 1115, p. 490).