A dune landscape with travellers on a path in a thunder storm, a tondo
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Price Realised EUR 93,750
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EUR 25,000 - EUR 35,000
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Closed: 6 Oct 2021
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Jan van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)
A dune landscape with travellers on a path in a thunder storm, a tondo
This charming, early tondo is accompanied by a letter from Dr. H-.U. Beck, dated 22 May 2000, in which Beck points out that he is not familiar with any other picture by the artist depicting a thunder storm akin. Beck states the composition reminds him of the drawings with thunder storms and downpour by Esaias van de Velde of 1628-29, for instance in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin of 1628 and in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge of 1629.
It has been suggested this tondo might be a pendant to Van Goyen’s Winter landscape with figures on a frozen river, diam. 12.2 cm., recently acquired by the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg (inv. ГЭ-10605).
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Painted on a thick, single sheet of oak wood, bevelled along all edges. In natural light no obvious damages or retouchings can be seen. The varnish is clear. The original pigment and impasto appear beutifully preserved. UV light reveals small scattered retouchings throughout the composition, mainly to the sky. Signature and date have partially been strengthened.
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A dune landscape with travellers on a path in a thunder storm, a tondoJan van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)Estimate: EUR 25,000 - 35,000
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