A Windy Day, 1651

  • Jan van Goyen, Dutch, 1596-1656

Oil on oak panel

  • Unframed: 18 × 26 1/4 inches (45.7 × 66.7 cm)
  • 27 × 35 1/4 × 3 inches (68.6 × 89.5 × 7.6 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

39.5

Signed and dated: V G 1651

Collection Kings of Wurttenberg

1920, (Max Rothchild, London, England)

1924-1925, (Galerie Van Diemen & Co., Amsterdam, Netherlands and Berlin, Germany)

1938-1939, (Lilienfeld Galleries, New York, New York, USA)

May 1939-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Hofstede de Groot, C. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 8. London, 1927, no. 785. Dutch Painting of the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat., Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art. Providence, 1938, no. 15. Richardson, E. P. "The Landscape of Jan van Goyen." Bulletin of the DIA, 19, 2 (November 1939): pp. 12-17(ill.). Richardson, E. P. "The Detroit van Goyen." Art Quarterly 2, 4 (1939): p. 402. Richardson, E. P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 54, no. 547. Dobrzycka, A. Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656. Poznan, Poland, 1966, no. 215 (ill.). Beck, H.-U. Jan van Goyen 1596-1656. Amsterdam, 1973, pp. 255-256, no. 554. Keyes, George S. et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 82-83, no. 30 (ill.).

Jan van Goyen, A Windy Day, 1651, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 39.5.