Fort on a River

Jan Josephsz. van Goyen (Dutch, 1596–1656)

1644

Medium/TechniqueOil on panel

Dimensions42.5 x 75.5 cm (16 3/4 x 29 3/4 in.)

Credit LineFrancis Welch Fund

Accession number47.235

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ClassificationsPaintings

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InscriptionsLower left, on side of boat: VG 1644ProvenanceCount André Mniszech (b. 1823 - d. 1905), Paris [see note 1]. About 1920, Wildenstein, Paris. 1925, D. Hermsen, The Hague. By 1929 until at least 1931, P. de Boer, Amsterdam [see note 2]. Asscher and Welker, London; between about 1931 and 1937, sold by Asscher and Welker to Georg Schicht (b. 1884 - d. 1961), London. 1937, brought to the United States [see note 3]. 1946, purchased by John Nicholson Gallery, New York (stock no. 1923); 1947, sold by Nicholson to the MFA for $4500. (Accession Date: March 13, 1947)

NOTES:
[1] Provenance information (to 1925) is taken from Hans-Ulrich Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656 (Amsterdam, 1973), p. 341, cat. no. 757. Mniszech was a Polish portraitist who worked in Paris.

[2] The painting was featured in a P. de Boer advertisement published in 1929 (see Pantheon, November 1929) and was exhibited at the gallery in 1930 and 1931.

[3] According to correspondence from John P. Nicholson to W. G. Constable of the MFA (March 17, 1947), the painting was sold by Asscher and Welker to Georg Schicht, "was sent over to this country in 1937 and has been in storage ever since until purchased by me within the last three months."