Panoramic View of a River with Low-lying Meadows

• Panoramic View of a River with Low-lying Meadows
• Panoramic View of a River with Low-Lying Meadows

SK-A-2133

signature and date, lower left (falsely?): ‘VG 1641’

Jan van Goyen painted the Dutch landscape in all of its myriad facets: from cities and villages to the sea and rivers, from hilly dunes to sprawling polders and holmes (flat ground near a river submerged in times of flood). Here some people on a hill in the left foreground look across an extensive river landscape. Van Goyen reserved a tremendous amount of space for the imposing cloudy sky looming above the low land.

painter: Jan van Goyen (mentioned on object)

in or after 1644

olieverf op paneel

• height 31.3 cm x width 44.6 cm
• depth 4.5 cm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1903

Public domain

...; ? sale, Robert P. Roupell (†) et al. [section Robert P. Roupell], London (Christie et al.), 25 June 1887, no. 21 (`A Landscape, with a cottage and peasants in the foreground, boats on a river, and a windmill in the distance. Signed, and dated 1641.12 3/4 in. x 17 1/2 in.´ [32.5 x 44.5 cm.]), £ 57 15s to Colnaghi;{Copy RKD.}...; purchased by the Fürst von Liechtenstein, Vienna, from the dealer Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1890;{Beck II, 1973, p. 437.} given in exchange to the dealer H.O. Miethke, Vienna, 1894;{Beck II, 1973, p. 437.}...; from T. Humphry Ward (1845-1926), London, fl. 4,820, to the museum, through the mediation of the Vereniging Rembrandt, 1903

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