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Castle by a River, 1647;

Oil on wood 26 x 38 1/4 in. (66 x 97.2 cm)

Anonymous Gift, 1964 (64.65.1)

Signed and dated (lower left, on boat): V Goyen 1647

?private collection, England (in 1792) ?private collection (until 1912; estate sale, Christie's, London, April 26, 1912, no. 102, as "The Castle and Town of Nimeguen, ...

Landscape with River and Three Figures

Pen and brown ink. 4 1/8 x 6 3/4 in. (10.4 x 17.2 cm)

Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971 (1972.118.282)

Monogrammed in pen and brown ink at lower left: VG

verso along bottom upside down in pencil: "ecole hollandaise Jean Van Goyen, Leyden 1596-1656" verso lower left in pencil "43"

Lower left collectors mark of Jean-François Gigoux (Lugt 1164)

Jean- Francois Gigoux, Paris; Gigoux sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, March 20-23, 1882, p.95, no. 324; Peter Dalbert. London; Durlacher Brothers, New York; ...

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Landmark Age of Rembrandt Exhibition Puts Met's Entire Dutch Paintings Collection of 228 Works on View in September

Exhibition dates: September 18, 2007 – January 6, 2008

Exhibition location: Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor

... in the "1871 Purchase" made by the Museum were from the Dutch school, including masterworks such as Jan van Goyen's View of Haarlem and the Haarlemmer Meer and Salomon van Ruysdael's Drawing the Eel. These paintings were coveted on both sides ...

2007-09-27

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