LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

40.16 in. (102.00 cm.) (height) by 53.54 in. (136.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'SvRuysdael 1634' ('SvR' linked, lower centre)

Exhibited:

Rotterdam, Rotterdamsche Kunstkring, Catalogue de la Collection Goudstikker d'Amsterdam, 10-25 April 1926, no. 82, illustrated.Amsterdam, Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker N.V., Catalogus der Tentoonstelling van Werken door Salomon van Ruysdael, 1936, no. 7, illustrated.Michigan, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Landscapes from the Golden Age, 19 May-19 June 1972, no. 25.Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Het Hollandse 17de eeuwse landschap, 20 October-26 November 1972, no. 25, illustrated. Tokyo, The National Museum of Art, European Landscape Painting, 14 September-26 October 1978, no. 12 (according to a label on the frame).

Literature:

W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, Berlin, 1975, pp. 20, 50 and 104, no. 236, pl. 12.C. Wright, Paintings in Dutch Museums. An Index of Oil Paintings in Public Collections in The Netherlands by Artists born before 1870, London, 1980, p. 399.Old Master Paintings: An illustrated summary catalogue, Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst (The Netherlandish Office for the Fine Arts), The Hague, 1992, p. 261, no. 2284, illustrated.

Provenance:

Bolton.with Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, by 1926.Looted by the Nazi authorities, July 1940.Recovered by the Allies, 1945.in the custody of the Dutch Government. Restituted in February 2006 to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker; Christie's, Amsterdam, 14 November 2007, lot 25 (€156,250 to the present owner).