Jan van Goyen, Winter Landscape with Colf Players, Skaters and Fishermen. 1647

Winter Landscape with Colf Players, Skaters and Fishermen, 1647, by Jan van Goyen (Leiden 1596 - 1656 The Hague)

Known for tonal, monochromatic landscape paintings in his later years, the Haarlem artist Jan van Goyen made hundreds of chalk drawings from nature in his travels throughout Holland, the Southern Netherlands, and the area around Cleve. Although many of these scenes ultimately informed his paintings, rarely were they directly preparatory. This winter view of 1647 appears to have no painted corollary and the site has not been identified.

Drawing: Black chalk with gray wash; two framing lines, the first in brush and gray ink by Van Goyen himself, the second in pen and dark brown ink added later. 4 7/16 x 7 11/16 in. (11.3 x 19.5 cm)

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Provenance
John Postle Heseltine, London; Heseltine sale, F. Muller, Amsterdam, 27-28 May 1913, lot 104, ill.; [Gustav Nebehay, Vienna]; H.E. ten Cate, Almelo (Lugt 533b on the verso); [C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf] (December 1964 catalogue, no. 43); [H.N. Bier, London]. Acquired by Robert Lehman in 1965.
Timeline of Art History (2000-present)

Publications

Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Robert Lehman CollectionThe Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 7, Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Drawings in the Robert Lehman Collection: Central Europe, the Netherlands, France, England

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, New York (1975.1.779)

Source: Do Smit