LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Measurements:

10.83 in. (27.50 cm.) (height) by 12.20 in. (31.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed lower centre: JVRuisdael (JVR in ligature)

Exhibited:

London, British Institution, 1837, (lent by C.T. Tower); London, Alfred Brod, February - March 1957 (in the catalogue as no. 27, reproduced); Amsterdam, P. de Boer, Summer exhibition, 1957; Delft, Stedelijk Museum 'Het Prinzenhof', Oude Kunst – en Antiekbeurs, September 1958; Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum, Collectie J.C.H. Heldring, 1958, no. 24a; Utrecht, Utrechts Museum, Collectie J.C.H. Heldring, 1960, no. 29; Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, 24 January - 30 March 1970; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 24 April - 7 June 1970, Sammlung Herbert Girardet. Holländische und flämische Meister, no. 43.

Literature:

A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813-1912, London 1914, p. 1177 (either no. 71: 'Landscape, Early' or no. 109: 'Woody Landscape', both lent by C.T. Tower); J. Smith, Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 9, London 1942, p. 693, no. 36; C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné.., vol. IV, London 1912, p. 281, no. 912; Collectie J.C.H. Heldring, exhibition catalogue, Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum, 1958, no. 24a, reproduced fig. 44; Collectie J.C.H. Heldring, exhibition catalogue, Utrecht, Utrechts Museum, 1960, no. 29, reproduced fig. 14; H. Vey, Sammlung Herbert Girardet. Holländische und flämische Meister, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, 24 January - 30 March 1970; and Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 24 April - 7 June 1970, (unpaginated), cat. no. 43, reproduced; S. Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael. A complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings and Etchings, New Haven & London 2001, p. 424, cat. no. 601, reproduced.

Provenance:

C.T. Tower, London, by 1837; Peter Claes, London; With Alfred Brod, London, February - March 1957; With P. de Boer, Amsterdam, Summer 1957 (bears his label with stock number on the reverse); J.C.H. Heldring, Oosterbeek, by 1958; By whose Executors sold, London, Sotheby's, 27 March 1963, lot 16, for £5,500, to Dr. H. Girardet; Herbert Girardet, Kettwig (1910-1972); Thence by descent.