View of Rhenen

1655

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Jan Josephsz van Goyen

View of Rhenen

1655

Physical Qualities Oil on wood panel, 21 7/8 x 32 1/4 in. (55.6 x 81.9 cm.)

Credit Line The Mary Frick Jacobs Collection

Object Number 1938.209

The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1938; Mary Frick Jacobs, Baltimore, MD by purchase, June 5, 1909; Eugène Fischof, Paris by purchase, 1909; M. Paul Merch Collection Sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 28, 1909, lot 33; M. Paul Mersch, Paris.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, “A Century of Collecting: 1840–1940”, June 6 to September 1, 1941.

The Walters Art Gallery, “Dutch 17th c. Painting”, November 10 to December 30, 1951.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Watershed: Transforming the Landscape in Early Modern Dutch Art," February 9–July 27, 2025.

Henry Barton Jacobs, The Collection of Mary Frick Jacobs (Baltimore: Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs, 1938), plate 50.

BMA News (June 1950), p. 1.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, “200 Objects in The Baltimore Museum of Art: A Picture Book,” 1955, p. 26.

“Object of the Week,” The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) April 29, 1956.

BMA News (October 1958), p. 13.

Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Washington D.C.: Netherlands-American Amity Trust, 1986), p. 6.

Andrea Kirsch and Rustin S. Levenson, eds., Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies, vol. 1 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), p. 160.

Melanie E. Gifford, “Pieter Brueghel’s Afterlife: A Visual Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century Landscape,” in Connoisseurship and the Knowledge of Art, edited by H. Perry Chapman, Thijs Westeijn, and Dulcia Meijers (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 64-66.

Inscribed: Face: on prow of boat at left, "V. Goyen 1656"