Antique 17th Century Large Dutch Old Master Oil on Panel Landscape Painting Jan Van Goyen 1650 Sculpture The elephant is signed to

The elephant is signed to the underside with a hand-painted two character mark

Paper was rolled up to create small coils and then gilded or coloured to simulate metalwork

they hired Albert Gerlach

The barometer housed in a 'rope twist' oak case with a brass bezel

Antique 17th Century Large Dutch Old Master Oil on Panel Landscape Painting Jan Van Goyen 1650 Sculpture The elephant is signed toA highly important Dutch Old Master Landscape Oil Painting on Panel by Jan Josefsz Van Goyen (1596 1656), the painting circa 1650. The painting from the Dutch Gold Age depicts a bustling figurative landscape, with figures on horseback and a dog to the foreground with many other groups of figures, to the highground is a church and other buildings. To the center of the painting is a larger group of figures, with many sailing boats tto the background,