[Probably H. O. Miethke, Vienna, sold 1896 to];(1) Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866– 1911),(2) The Hague, by 1899 (sale, Amsterdam, F. Muller & Co., 14 May 1912, lot 23, ill., sold for 10,000 florins to); Piek, The Hague. Anonymous (sale, Amsterdam, F. Muller & Co., 20 June 1916, lot 192, sold for 10,400 florins to);(3) [F. Muller & Co.]. Michiel Onnes (1878–1972), Kasteel Nijenrode, Breukelen.(4) [J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam, by 1920]. Miss A. Goekoop,(5) Wassenaar, sold to; [Nystad, The Hague, sold 1982 to]; Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter, Los Angeles, given 2009 to; LACMA.
Footnotes
(1) This painting was probably part of a collection of old master paintings Miethke sold en bloc in October 1896 to Hoogendijk for 60,000 florins. Heijbroek and Wouthuysen 1999, p. 269.
(2) For Hoogendijk, see Heijbroek and Wouthuysen 1999, pp. 269–70. Cornelis Hoogendijk came from a Reformed Calvinist family in Krimpen aan den IJssel. Before completing his doctoral exams for a law degree from the University of Leiden, Hoogendijk enrolled at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, where he studied painting for one to two years. Between 1889 and 1900 he put together an unusually large collection of paintings, drawings, and prints of old and modern masters. A large part of the collection, including this painting, was exhibited at Pulchri Studio in The Hague in 1899. In 1900 Hoogendijk was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Ermelo, where he died in 1911. From 1906 until 1912, when it was sold through F. Muller & Co., part of the collection was on loan to the Rijksmuseum. This painting does not, however, match any of the four paintings by Van Goyen recorded by the Rijksmuseum as on loan from the collection. I am grateful to Pieter Roelofs, curator of seventeenth-century Dutch painting at the Rijksmuseum, for checking the archives of the museum.
(3) The specific seller of the painting is not identified. The catalogue lists as sellers: M. Dr. W. A. Royaards, conseiller de legation de S. M. la Reine des Pays-Bas a Sofia; Mme Vve. S. Paleologo, Amsterdam; Mme Vve. W. J. Bosch Verhagen, Utrecht; Mme Vve. G. C. J. van Reenen van Lexmond, Loenen; M. A. Groutars, Maastricht; and M. Mr. A. C. A. Jacobse Boudewijnse, Middelburg. The painting may have been bought in since Muller was also the auctioneer.
(4) According to H.-U. Beck 1972–87, vol. 2 (1973), no. 280, p. 135. Michiel Onnes, an Amsterdam coffee merchant of German descent, acquired Nijenrode Castle in 1907 and restored and expanded it in 1920. In 1930 he sold it to the art dealer Jacques Goudstikker. The painting was not included in the 10 July 1923 sale of the Onnes collection by Ant. W. M. Mensing (F. Muller & Co.), Amsterdam.
(5) Possibly related to Adriaan Goekoop (1859–1914) and his wife, Johanne Goekoop de Jongh (1877–1946), the first Dutch woman to earn a doctorate in art history. The couple, who married in 1905, lived outside The Hague at Sorgvliet, the former home of Jacob Cats. See cat. no. 21n14. See also cat. no. 21.
