A Windy Day

Jan van Goyen Dutch, 1596-1656
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A Windy Day

1651

Jan van Goyen

1596-1656

Dutch

Unknown

Oil on oak panel

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

Paintings

European Painting

Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

39.5

This work is in the public domain.

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Signed and dated: V G 1651

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Provenance

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)

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Published References

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.).

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

A Windy Day
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