LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

18.50 in. (47.00 cm.) (height) by 22.17 in. (56.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and indistinctly dated 'J Ruysdael 166[?]' (lower left)

Exhibited:

London, Christie's; and Manchester, Whitworth, Treasures of the North: An exhibition to benefit the Christie Hospital, Manchester, 2000, no. 38.

Literature:

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, London, 1835, VI, p. 53, no. 169, as 'an excellent picture'. C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, London, 1912, IV, p. 174, no. 548. W. Stechow, Dutch Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1966, p. 200, footnote 41. S. Slive and H.R. Hoetink, Jacob van Ruisdael, exhibition catalogue, The Hague, 1981, p. 108, fig. 51. E.J. Walford, Jacob van Ruisdael and the Perception of Landscape, London and New Haven, 1991, p. 224, footnote 24. S. Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings and Etchings, London and New Haven, 2001, p. 298, no. 393, fig. 393.

Provenance:

M. van der Pots, Rotterdam. Rev. John Clowes (1777-1846), Manchester, by 1835, and by inheritance to his brother, Colonel William Legh Clowes (1791-1862), and by descent to his grandson, Colonel Henry Arthur Clowes (1867-1916), Norbury, Ashbourne, Derbyshire; (†) Christie’s, London, 17 February 1950, lot 49 (3,200 gns.), when acquired by his son, Colonel Legh Algernon Clowes, and by descent to the present owner.