View of Arnhem, Jan van Goyen, c. 1644

Title(s)

View of Arnhem

Object type

• painting

Object number

SK-A-3250

Inscriptions / marks

• monogram, bottom right (false): ‘IVG’ (In 1936 the painting bore a false signature and date (IVG 1665). The date was removed in 1937.)

Description

Gezicht over glooiende korenvelden met korenschoven op de stad Arnhem, rechts de Rijn.

Artist

• painter: Jan van Goyen (mentioned on object)

Dating

c. 1644

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

• panel
• oil paint (paint)

Measurements

support: h 26 cm × w 41.5 cm
d 5.5 cm

What

• city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
• harvest

Where

• Arnhem

Credit line

• Gift of H.W.A. Deterding, London

Acquisition

gift Jun-1936

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Artists born between 1570 and 1600, Jonathan Bikker, Yvette Bruijnen, Taco Dibbits, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Everhard Korthals Altes, Gerdien Wuestman, p. 158, 159
• All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 247