LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

39.21 in. (99.60 cm.) (height) by 33.74 in. (85.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Ruisdael' (lower left)

Exhibited:

London, British Institution, 1853, no. 147. Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, Dutch Painting of the Seventeenth Century, June-July 1961, no. 85 (lent by Miss G. Holden).

Literature:

S. Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: A complete catalogue of his paintings, drawings and etchings, New Haven and London, 2001, pp. 240-1, no. 291, illustrated.

Provenance:

Ralph Howard, 1st Earl of Wicklow (1726-1789), by whom reputedly acquired in Rome in 1752, at Shelton Abbey, Ireland, and thence by descent to, William Howard, 8th Earl of Wicklow (1902-1978), from whom acquired by the following, with J.A. Tooth, London, 1950, from whom acquired in 1951 by, Miss G. Holden, Blacko, Lancashire. with Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, by 1980, from whom acquired by, Hans P. Wertitsch (1939-1996), Vienna, and by descent.