JACOB VAN RUISDAEL (HAARLEM 1628/1629-1682 AMSTERDAM) - photo 1
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JACOB VAN RUISDAEL (HAARLEM 1628/1629-1682 AMSTERDAM)

Lot 12
07.07.2022 19:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 12 | JACOB VAN RUISDAEL (HAARLEM 1628/1629-1682 AMSTERDAM)
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£ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
JACOB VAN RUISDAEL (HAARLEM 1628⁄1629-1682 AMSTERDAM)

A wooded landscape with a man and two dogs on a path, a cottage beyond

signed and dated ‘JvRuisdael 1648’ (lower right, 'JvR' in ligature)

oil on panel

20 1⁄2 x 26 3⁄4 in. (52 x 67.8 cm.)





Provenance

(Possibly) [Van Terburg family]; Roos, Amsterdam, 16 July 1819, lot 148.

with Otto Hirschmann, Amsterdam, 1934.

David Birnbaum ten Cate (1891-1956), Amsterdam, by whom sold 15 June 1945 for £1,800 to the following,

with Duits & Co., London, inv. no. 7653, from whom acquired 16 June 1945 for £2,000 by the following,

John Enrico Fattorini (1878-1949), Bradford.

with Duits & Co., London, acquired 2 July 1956 for £3,500, inv. no. 426, from whom acquired by the following,

Dr Hans A. Wetzlar (d.1977), Amsterdam; his sale (†), Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, 9 June 1977, lot 102 (Dfl.740,000), when acquired by a member of the family and by descent.



Literature

(Possibly) C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., London, 1912, IV, p. 260, no. 831b.

H. Gerson et. al., Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Catalogue of Paintings, Cambridge, 1960, I, p. 112-113, no. 84, note 6.

D. Johns, ‘The Collection of Old Master Paintings formed by the late Dr. Hans A. Wetzlar’, Art at Auction, The year at Sotheby Parke Bernet 1976–1977, New York and London, 1977, p. 44.

P. Judge, ‘Hans Wetzlar paintings set 8 world records’, The Financial Times, London, 11 June 1977.

E. John Walford, Jacob van Ruisdael and the perception of landscape, New Haven, 1991, p. 68, no. 52.

S. Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael, A complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings, New Haven and London, 2001, p. 397, no. 551, illustrated.

J. Nicolaisen, ‘Ein Experiment in fremder und in eigener Handschift – zu einem Fruhwerk des Jacob Isaacksz. van Ruisdael‘, Jahresheft, Leipzig, 2002, pp. 38-40, figs. 3-4.

M. Didier, ‘De laatste belangrijke collectie‘, Het Veilingtijdschrift, III, no. 1, Haarlem, January 2002, pp. 26-27, illustrated.

W.Th. Kloek, ‘Book review of S. Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael, 2001, and of M. Sitt and P. Biesboer, Jacob van Ruisdael, 2002’, Oud Holland, no. 116, 2003, pp. 115 and 117, fig. 2.



Exhibited

Laren, Singer Museum, De Kunst van het Verzamelen, keuze uit twee Nederlandse Collecties, 1966, no. 47.

Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Jacob van Ruisdael oder die Revolution der Landschaft, 18 January-1 April 2002, no. 22.

Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, Jacob van Ruisdael: Grandioze landschappen, 27 April-28 July 2002, no. 22.

Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, 2002-2017, on long-term loan.

Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum; Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, De Gouden Eeuw begint in Haarlem, 11 October 2008-7 June 2009.

Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Tokyo, Mori Arts Center Gallery; Fukushima, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Vermeer and Rembrandt: the Masters of the 17th century Dutch Golden Age, 24 October 2015-8 May 2016.



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Applied technique:Oil on panel
Place of origin:Western Europe, The Netherlands
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