Name: Jan van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)
Brand: A dune landscape with travellers on a path in a thunder storm, a tondo
Price: 75000.00 EUR
Availability: SoldOut

Jan van Goyen (Leiden 1596-1656 The Hague)
A dune landscape with travellers on a path in a thunder storm, a tondo
signed and dated 'I V GOYEN 1627' (lower right)
oil on panel
12 cm. diam.

Private collection of Dudley William Tooth (1896-1972), London.
J.E.M. Ruys, Linschoten, in the 1990s.
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 2001, when acquired by the following:
Private collection, Amsterdam; thence by inheritance to the present owner.

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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).