Jan van Goyen, A winter landscape with figures skating and playing colf in front of Monfoort castle. 1625

A winter landscape with figures skating and playing colf in front of Monfoort castle, 1625. Jan van Goyen (Leiden, 1596 - 1656, The Hague)

Oil on panel. 19 3/8 x 28 7/8 in. / 49.3 x 73.4 cm. Signed and dated 'I V. GOIEN. 1625' (lower left)

Auction

• Christie’s London. Sale 5964 (Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale), Lot 15 (Property from a private European Collection), 4 December 2012. Estimate GBP 150,000 - GBP 250,000; Price realised GBP 657,250

Provenance

• with Landry, Paris, circa 1925.
• Victor Decock; his sale (+), Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 12 May 1948, lot 53, as 'École Hollandaise' (655,000 francs).
• Anonymous sale; Paris, 7 December 1954, lot 69 (950,000 francs).
• with Galerie Charpentier, 1955.

Source: Do Smit