View of Haarlem
Jan van Goyen (Leyden 1596 - The Hague 1656)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1641 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1613 x 2450 mm (63 1/2 x 100 in)
Place of origin
Holland
Collection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486286
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, View of Haarlem by Jan van Goyen (Leyden 1596 – The Hague 1656), signed: J.V.GOYEN 1641. A view of Haarlem, in the right foreground are five figures beneath two trees, in particular a man with a rabbit and dog. At centre, a man and woman are in a cart, talking to a man and a boy. At left, mid-distance is Haarlem Cathedral and four mills can be seen in the centre with boats on the river beyond.
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
J V GOYEN 1641 (Treasury List gives the date as 1641)
Makers and roles
Jan van Goyen (Leyden 1596 - The Hague 1656), artist