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A Frozen River with Skaters
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A Frozen River with Skaters

Jan Josephsz. van Goyen (Dutch, 1596–1656)
1637
Medium/TechniqueOil on panel
Dimensions31 x 41.4 cm (12 3/16 x 16 5/16in.)
Framed: 47 × 55.9 × 5.7 cm (18 1/2 × 22 × 2 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art
Accession number2017.4195
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
Provenance1788, possibly Jan Willem Heybroek, Rotterdam; June 9, 1788, possibly in the Heybroek sale, Rotterdam, lot 25, sold to van der Laan [see note 1]. By 1790, possibly Thomas Lordon de Ghellinck, Ghent; September 3, 1821, possibly in the Ghellinck sale, Ghent, lot 37, sold to Rottier [see note 2]. 1881, Henri Roxard de la Salle (b. 1837 - d. 1882), Nancy; March 28, 1881, Roxard de la Salle sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 14, sold for fr. 4100 to Laurent-Richard; May 28, 1886, Laurent-Richard sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, lot 19, sold for 2700 fr. to Maurice Kann (b. 1839 - d. 1906), Paris. 1950, Léon Salavin, Paris [see note 3]. 1951, Jacques O. Leegenhoek (dealer), Paris. 1969, Robert H. Smith, Washington, DC [see note 4]. November 30, 1973, anonymous ("property of a gentleman") sale, Christie's, London, lot 132, sold to Katz (probably Daniel Katz, Ltd., London). 1997, Stiftung für Gemälde und Antikes Porzellan, Vaduz, Liechtenstein; December 3, 1997, Stiftung für Gemälde und Antikes Porzellan sale (print catalogue identifies the consignor as a "European Collection"), Christie's, London, lot 26, to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA; 2017, gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 14, 2017)

NOTES:
[1] C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 8 (London, 1927), p. 298, cat. no. 1179, tentatively identifies this painting with a 1652 Winter Scene by van Goyen, measuring about 10 by 14 inches, which was included in this 1788 sale.

[2] Hans-Ulrich Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596 - 1656, vol. 2 (Amsterdam, 1973), pp. 48-50, cat. no. 94, identifies this painting with a Winter Scene by van Goyen in the Ghellinck collection, which was catalogued in 1790 (as measuring 12 1/2 x 15 inches) and sold in 1821 (measuring 8 1/2 by 12 inches). Although the description in the 1790 catalogue is close to the present painting, the scene is described in reverse.

[3] According to Hans-Ulrich Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596 - 1656, vol. 3 (Doornspijk, 1987), p. 148, cat. no. 94, this painting was in the Salavin collection in 1950. That year, it was lent anonymously to Chefs-d'Oeuvre des Collections Parisiennes (Musée Carnavalet, Paris, November-December, 1950), cat. no. 24, as "Scène de Patinage."

[4] Frederik J. Duparc et al., Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection (New Haven, 2011), p. 149, cat. no. 24.