LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

9.88 in. (25.10 cm.) (height) by 13.23 in. (33.60 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition of works by the Old Masters, and by deceased Masters of the British School, 1890, no. 110 (lent by Lord Ashburton). Paris, Salle du Jeu de Paume, Jardin des Tuileries, Exposition des Grands et Petits Maîtres Hollandais du XVIIe siècle, 28 April-10 July 1911, no. 135 (lent by M. de Jonge).

Literature:

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, London, 1835, VI, p. 59, no. 188, as 'A View in Holland'. G.F. Waagen, Kunstwerke und Künstler in England, Berlin, 1838, II, p. 96. G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854, II, p. 110. W. Martin, 'Ausstellung altholländischer Bilder in Pariser Privatbesitz’, Monatshefte für Kunstwissenschaft, IV, 1911, p. 506, no. 135, pl. 110. C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1912, IV, p. 232, no. 735, as ‘After the Flood’. J. Rosenberg, Jacob van Ruisdael, Berlin, 1928, p. 94, no. 364. S. Slive, A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings and Etchings, New Haven and London, 2001, p. 328, no. 440.

Provenance:

William Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon (c. 1768-1835); his sale, Christie's, London, 27 April 1816 (=2nd day), lot 43 (108 gns. with companion to Seguier). George Watson Taylor; his sale, Christie's, London, 13 June 1823 (=1st day), lot 43 (107 gns. to John Smith for the following). Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton (1774-1848), and by descent to, Francis Baring, 5th Baron Ashburton (1866-1938), by whom sold en bloc in August 1907 to the following, with Thomas Agnew and Sons, London. with C. Sedelmeyer, Paris. S. de Jonge, Paris, by 1911. (Possibly), with Kunsthandel M. Schultess, Basel, circa 1930.