ID 945326
Lot 11 | JACOB ISAACSZ. VAN RUISDAEL (HAARLEM 1628/29-1682 AMSTERDAM)
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
The tower of Kostverloren on the river Amstel
signed with monogram 'JVR' (lower right)
oil on canvas
19 3/8 x 23 1/8 in. (46.7 x 58.5 cm.)
Provenance
(Probably) with Alexandre Joseph Paillet (1743-1814), Paris; his sale, Hôtel d'Aligre, Paris, 15 December 1777, lot 337, where described as amongst the 'meilleurs ouvrage de ce Maître' (350 livres to de Roy, Brussels).
Charles-Ferdinand de Bourbon, duc de Berry (1778-1820), Elysée Palace, Paris, and by inheritance to his wife,
Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de Berry (1798-1870); their private selling exhibition, under the direction of the Louis Charles Bonaventure Pierre, comte de Mesnard (1769-1842); Christie's, London, April-June 1834, lot 67 (120 gns. to George Stone).
(Probably) with William Buchanan (1777-1864); Christie's, London, 24 May 1845, lot 59a (120 gns. to the following),
with Christian Johannes Nieuwenhuys (1799-1883), London.
Eva Sardinia Borthwick-Norton (1891-1988), Purbrook; Christie's, London, 15 May 1953, lot 84 (3,045 gns. to the following),
with Edward Speelman, London, from whom acquired by the following,
Harold Samuel, Baron Samuel of Wych Cross (1912-1987); Christie's, London, 1 April 1960, lot 73 (80 gns.), where acquired, and by descent to the present owners.
Literature
J. Smith, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, London, 1835, VI, pp. 80-81, no. 256.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, London, 1912, p. 38, no. 101.
C. van Hasselt, Dessins de paysagistes hollandais du XVIIe siècle de la collection particulière conservée à l'Institut néerlandais de Paris, exhibition catalogue, Brussel, Biblioteque Albert, 1968, p. 129, under no. 126, note 11.
I.Q. van Regteren Altena and P.W. Ward-Jackson, Drawings from the Teyler Museum, Haarlem, exhibition catalogue, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1970, p. 34, under no. 42.
C. van Hasselt, Rembrandt and his Century: Dutch Drawings from the Seventeenth Century from the Collection of Frits Lugt, exhibition catalogue, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1977, p. 143, under no. 97, note 18.
B. Haak, 'Het Huis Kostverloren aan de Amstel, Jacob van Ruisdael 1628/29-1682', Vereniging Rembrandt Nationaal Fonds Kunstbehoud, The Hague, 1981, p. 93, note 4.
S. Slive, 'The Manor Kostverloren: Vicissitudes of a Seventeenth Century Dutch Landscape Motif', Papers in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University, III, 1988, pp. 137-138, illustrated.
E.J. Walford, Jacob van Ruisdael and the Perception of Landscape, New Haven and London, 1991, p. 122.
A.I. Davis, Jan van Kessel (1641-1680), Doornspijk, 1992, p. 145, under no. 40.
S. Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings, New Haven and London, 2001, pp. 100-101 and 538, no. 74, illustrated.
| Artist: | Jacob van Ruisdael (1628 - 1682) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Jacob van Ruisdael (1628 - 1682) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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