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Landscape with Dunes

Landscape with Dunes

Artist/Maker (Dutch, 1596–1656)
Date1647
MediumOil on oak panel
DimensionsOverall: 18 1/2 × 28 in. (47 × 71.1 cm)
Frame: 25 1/8 × 34 1/2 × 2 1/4 in. (63.8 × 87.6 × 5.7 cm)
Credit LineR. T. Miller Jr. Fund
Object number1941.76
Status
On view
More Information
Van Goyen was the master of the tonalist landscape, using a limited palette of muted colors to describe the subtle, atmospheric beauty of the Dutch countryside. Here a farmer plows a field as cattle graze, two men and a dog walk across the fields, while other figures are seen to converse by farm buildings. The windmill, spire, and house alleviate the horizontality of the land.
ProvenanceDr. Johan Focke [1848-1922], Bremen, Germany¹; by inheritance to Hermine Margarethe Louise Focke, Bremen, Germany, by 1904. (Anonymous sale, F. Muller, Amsterdam, 12 December 1922, lot 159). Mrs. A. Rowe, New York; (her sale, American Art Association, New York, 26 April 1928, lot 79); (London art market); (Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam, acquired in London, 1928); (M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., London and New York, 1929-30); (E.J. van Wisselingh & Co,, Amsterdam, by 1932).² Possibly in the Kuenxe Graef Collection.³ (M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., New York); purchased 1941 by Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH ¹ "Dutch and Flemish Pictures of the Seventeenth Century," E.J. can Wisselingh, Amsterdam, Summer 1932, cat. no. 3
²Exhibited at E. J. van Wisselingh in 1932, but remained in Knoedler's stock records until 1941
³ As noted by Knoedler's New York stock book 7, no. A981Exhibition History
Gemalde aus bremischem Privatbesitz
  • Breman ( 1904 - 1904 )
Dutch and Flemish Pictures of the Seventeenth Century
  • E. J. van Wisselingh, Amsterdam ( 1932 - 1932 )
Old Masters of the 17th and 18th Centuries
  • Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY ( 1938 - 1938 )
European Masters Lent by Knoedler Galleries
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (February 24, 1940 - March 17, 1940 )
Masterworks from University and College Art Collections
  • Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS (February 22, 1958 - March 30, 1958 )
Seven Hundred Years of Western Art
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 26, 2001 - June 2, 2002 )
From Baroque to Neoclassicism: European Paintings, 1625-1825
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 10, 2002 - June 9, 2003 )
Collections
  • European
  • On View
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