River Landscape with a Ferry, · Jan van Goyen · Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle

Jan van Goyen

River Landscape with a Ferry,

1625

Oil on wood

42 x 65.5 cm

Signed & dated lower right: I V GOYEN 1625

Beck 234

Vergrössern

Drucken

Provenance

1Johan van der Linden van Slingeland Dordrecht • [d.] 1782 Uitmuntend cabinet konstige en plaisante schilderyen, tekeningen, prentkonst, beeld-werk en rariteiten, van de voornaamste meesters, (sale cat.) Dordrecht (22 August 1785), no. 164.

2Pieter Fouquet Amsterdam • 1785 Acquired at the above sale for fl. 11, Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, vol. 8, Esslingen/Neuss & Paris 1923, pp. 154–155, no. 633e.

3Art trade London Old Pictures and Drawings, (sale cat.) Christie’s, London (18 January 1946), no. 144.

4Eugene Slatter London • 1946 Acquired at the above sale, AStEGB, e-mail-message from Christie’s London, to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, 14 January 2008.

5G. H. Kennedy Heathfield Cottage • Rotherfield (Sussex) • by 1952/53 Dutch Pictures 1450–1750, (exh. cat.) Royal Academy of Arts, London 1952–53, no. 246.

6John Mitchell London Information given by Mr. Anthony Speelman, London, son of Edward Speelman, to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, 8 January 2010.

7Edward Speelman London Acquired from the above, information as above, n. (6).

8Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London Acquired from the above, information as above, n. (6), and confirmed by Marlborough International Fine Art, 24 August 2012; AStEGB, Letter from Trafo Anstalt für Handel und Finanz, Vaduz Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London], signed F. K. Lloyd, to Dr. O. Maurer [Secretary General of Oerlikon Bührle & Co.], Zurich, 3 March 1954, accompanying Invoice of same date for 4 works of art, including van Goyen, River Landscape.

9Emil Bührle Zurich • 3 March 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above on 3 March 1954 for £ 3.300 (= CHF 40.260), Invoice as above, n. (8), with stamp «Gut zur Zahlung», initialed by Bührle; AStEGB, Entry Book II, 3 March 1954, with reference regarding date of purchase.

10Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 150.

AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich

Exhibitions

1946Dutch and Flemish Paintings of the 17^th Century Eugene Slatter Gallery • London • 1946 no. 34.

1952Dutch Pictures 1450–1750 Royal Academy of Arts • London • 1952–53 no. 246.

1955Alte Meister aus der Sammlung E. Bührle, Zürich Jegenstorf Castle • Jegenstorf (Bern) • 1955 no. 5.

1958Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, Festschrift zu Ehren von Emil G. Bührle zur Eröffnung des Kunsthaus-Neubaus und Katalog der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle Kunsthaus Zurich • 1958 no. 72.

1987Masters of 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Painting Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston • Philadelphia Museum of Art • 1987–88 no. 33.

2008De Gouden Eeuw begint in Haarlem Frans Hals Museum • Haarlem • 2008–09 no. 35; Frans Hals und Haarlems Meister der Goldenen Zeit, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich 2009 (exhibited only in Haarlem).

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 150.

2016Von Dürer bis van Gogh, Sammlung Bührle trifft Wallraf Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud • Cologne • 2016–17 no. 30.

References

1923Cornelis Hofstede de Groot Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts vol. 8 • Esslingen/Neuss & Paris • 1923 • pp. 154–155, no. 633e (English edition: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London 1909, ²Cambridge 1976).

1953H. Gerson «Dutch Pictures at the Royal Academy» in Burlington Magazine (95) • 1953 • p. 33, no. 246.

1955Max Huggler «Alte Meister aus der Sammlung Bührle im Schloss Jegenstorf» in Schweizer Monatshefte (35) • 1955 • p. 266.

1966Anna Dobrzycka Jan van Goyen 1596–1656 Poznań • 1966 • p. 31 (n. 36), no. 22.

1973Hans-Ulrich Beck Jan van Goyen 1596–1656, Ein Œuvreverzeichnis vol. 2 • Amsterdam • 1973 • no. 234 (ill.).

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle / Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle / Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 152 (ill.;²1986).

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 19 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).

1995Josua Bruyn «Le paysage hollandais du XVII^e siècle comme métaphore religieuse» in Le paysage en Europe du XVI^e au XVIII^e siècle Paris • 1995 • pp. 78–81, fig. 7 (Actes du colloque organisé au Musée du Louvre 1990).

2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 1 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 8 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

2021Lukas Gloor «The Holdings of the Emil Bührle Collection: Illustrated List of All 633 Purchases» in The Emil Bührle Collection: History, Full Catalogue and 70 Masterpieces Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.) • Munich • 2021 • no. 360 (ill.).