The Maas at Dordrecht
Jan van Goyen (Leyden 1596 - The Hague 1656)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1641 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1600 x 2502 mm (63 x 98 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Holland
Collection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486271
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Maas at Dordrecht by Jan van Goyen (1596-1656), signed: I.V.GOYEN 1641. A landscape depicting the Maas at Dordrecht. On the left-hand side can be seen a cottage and a group of trees with a man descending some steps and a woman, a boy and a man and three boats at a landing place. In the distance Dordrecht can be soon on a bank; at centre, a pagoda-shaped tower and to the right, the square towered cathedral, with a crane below. In the right, mid-distance there is a sailing boat and in the right foreground a skiff with five men in it.
Provenance
In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) by 1835. Thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection (acquired in lieu of tax by HM Treasury in 1956 and subsequently transferred to the National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
I. V. GOYEN 1641 (inscription reproduced exactly from Collins Baker)
Makers and roles
Jan van Goyen (Leyden 1596 - The Hague 1656), artist