A River Scene with Sailing Boats

Item

Creator

Jan Josefsz van Goyen (1596-1656)

Title

A River Scene with Sailing Boats

Description

Oil on panel
13 x 18 in. (33 x 45 cm.)
Inscription: Signed with initials ‘V G’ on the rowboat at the lower left

Provenance

Mocenigo and Grimani collection, Palazzo Mocenigo and Grimani, Venice. Leo Nikolai Tolstoy (1828-1910), Count, Moscow and Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. Boris J. Serguèyeff, Geneva, by February 1924, consigned before October 1927 to; Léon Littman, Bronx, New York. [Frederick Mont (Mondschein) (1894-1994), New York, sold March 1957 to]; [Newhouse Galleries, New York, and Frederick Mont (Mondschein) (1894-1994), New York, sold November 1957 to]; Arthur William Sidney Herrington (1891-1970) and Nell C. Herrington (1891-1966), Indianapolis, Indiana, by inheritance to their son; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, to August 1978; Unidentified thieves stole the painting from Arthur C. Herrington, Cohasset, MA home; Police recovered and returned the painting August 1979 to; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, bequest 2018 to; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.[1]
[1] Refer to the curatorial/object file.

Exhibitions

1960 – Indianapolis, IN, John Herron Art Museum, Indiana Collects: A Loan Exhibition of European and Latin-American Paintings Owned by Collectors in the State of Indiana, 9 October – 6 November 1960, no. 17, illus.

1964 – Champaign, IL, Krannert Art Museum, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington of Indianapolis, Indiana, European and American Paintings and Graphic Art; European, American, and Oriental Decorative Arts, 27 September – 25 October 1964, no. 15, illus.

1965 – Indianapolis, Leah Ransburg Fine Arts Center, Indiana Central College, Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington, 2 – 10 October 1965, no. 6, illus.

1968 – Indianapolis, IN, Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, The Nell Clarke Herrington Memorial Exhibition, 7-28 April 1968, Bulletin/Catalogue, Spring 1968, p. 49, illus.

1968 – Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Civic and Cultural Center, Selections from the Herrington Collection, Inaugural Exhibition of the Arts Museum, 3-19 May 1968, no. 20, illus.

References

Beck, Hans-Ulrich, Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656: Ein Oeuvreverzeichnis, II: Katalog der Gemälde, Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1973, p. 271, no. 595, illus.

Jolna, Stacy. “Boston Police Recover $2.5 Million in Stolen Art.” The Washington Post (16 August 1979).

Maremont, Mark, Ross Kerber and William M. Carley. “Antiques Dealer May Have Information About Art Theft.” The Wall Street Journal (30 August 1997).

Amore, Anthony M. and Tom Mashberg. Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists. New York: Pagrave MacMillan, 2011, pp. 111-3, 219.

Status

Under Research