LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

18.50 in. (47.00 cm.) (height) by 25.00 in. (63.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with the monogram and dated on the sailboat: SVR (in ligature) 1650 FE.

Exhibited:

Paris, Palais Bourbon 1874, no. 455 (as dated 1649).1

Literature:

W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, Eine Einführung in seine Kunst, Berlin 1938, pp. 130-131, no. 522 and 2nd, revised edition, Berlin 1975, pp. 149-150, no. 522

Provenance:

Marquis de Biencourt; Gustave Rothan, Paris, 1874; His sale, Paris, May 29-31, 1890, no. 98, for 8,000 Francs (as "A View of Dordrecht"); Adolphe Schloss, Paris and by descent (looted in WWII and later restituted); Schloss sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, May 25, 1949, no. 54, reproduced pl. XXXVIII, for 2,100,000 Francs (as "A view of Weesp"); Where purchased by the mother of the present owner.