Dune Landscape

Dune Landscape

1636
Artist
Jan van Goyen, Dutch, 1596-1656
Country
Netherlands
Object
painting
Medium
Oil paint on panel
Accession Number
2011.359
Credit Line
Gift of Bernard Polak
Jan van Goyen (Dutch). Dune Landscape. 1636. Oil paint on panel. Gift of Bernard Polak. 2011.359.
Dimensions
frame height: 23 11/16 in, 60.1663 cm; frame width: 32 3/16 in, 81.7563 cm; frame depth: 4 in, 10.1600 cm; sight height: 13 5/8 in, 34.6075 cm; sight width: 22 7/16 in, 56.9913 cm
Inscription
[lower right] VG 1636
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
Known Provenance
Wesselhoeft family, Hamburg for fifty years. (C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf); purchased January 1953 from (C. G. Boerner Gallery, Düsseldorf) by (P. de Boer Gallery, Amsterdam); purchased August 1953 from (P. de Boer Gallery, Amsterdam) by Jacob Polak [1885-1971], Sarasota, FL; bequeathed by Jacob Polak to his son Bernard Polak, Middletown, NY and Englewood, CO; gifted 2011 by Bernard Polak, Englewood, CO to the Denver Art Museum. Provenance research is on-going at the Denver Art Museum and we will post information as it becomes available. Please e-mail provenance@denverartmuseum.org, if you have questions, or if you have additional information to share with us.
Exhibition History
  • “The Light Show” — Denver Art Museum, 5/19/2019 – 3/7/2021