View of Scheveningen [recto]

probably c. 1650/1652

Jan van Goyen

Associated Names
Jan van Goyen

Artist, Dutch, 1596 - 1656

The image shows a landscape with a horizon featuring buildings, one of which has a high spire. In the foreground, there are rough pencil marks resembling loose terrain. The sketch is done in pencil with light brushstrokes, creating a monochromatic color palette. The background presents a simple sky, allowing the buildings and foreground to stand out.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gray wash over black chalk on buff paper//border in pen and black ink added by later hand

  • Credit Line

    Julius S. Held Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 11.5 x 16.1 cm (4 1/2 x 6 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1985.1.34.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Beck 1972, no. 847, State /180B

Associated Artworks

Six Men [verso]

Jan van Goyen

1650

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Johnson Neale, London; T. Mark Hovell, London; (Schaeffer Galleries, Inc., New York); Prof. and Mrs. Julius Held, New York, 1960; gift to NGA, 1985.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

-1

  • Mauritshuis, The Hague.

1970

  • Selections from the Drawing Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius S. Held, University Art Gallery, Binghamton; traveling exhibition, 1970, no. 27.

1979

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of Ingrid and Julius S. Held, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; traveling exhibition, 1979, no. 13.

Bibliography

1895

  • Verslagen omtrent; Rijksversamelingen van Geschiedenis en Kunst, 18 (1895): 64.

1918

  • Dodgson, Campbell. "A Dutch Scetchbook of 1650." The Burlington Magazine 32 (1918): 234-240.

1970

  • Held, Julius S. Selections from the Drawing Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius S. Held, University Art Gallery, Binghamton; 1970, no. 27.

1972

  • Beck, Hans-Ulrich. Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, ein Oeuvreverzeichnis. 4 vols. Vol. 1: Einführung, Katalog der Handzeichnungen. Amsterdam, 1972.

Inscriptions

upper right in pen and brown ink: 2[o]0

Wikidata ID

Q64580780

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