Bridge with a Sluice (Getty Museum)

Bridge with a Sluice (Getty Museum)
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Currently on view at: Getty Center, Museum East Pavilion, Gallery E204
Bridge with a Sluice
Jacob van Ruisdael (http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/512/jacob-van-ruisdael-dutch-16281629-1682/) (Dutch, 1628/1629 - 1682)
Dutch
about 1648 - 1649
Oil on panel
39.7 × 56.2 cm (15 5/8 × 22 1/8 in.)
Signed, lower left: "JVR" (in monogram).
Paintings
Paintings
Painting
86.PB.597
Bathed in sunlight breaking through the clouds, a rustic sluice, used to regulate water levels and irrigate farmland, sits above a background of
productive pastureland. Jacob van Ruisdael, one of the great Dutch landscape painters of the 1600s, explored a range of landscape motifs in
his work, including forest scenes, seascapes, beach scenes, and panoramic landscapes. In Bridge with a Sluice, Ruisdael made an ordinary
object monumental by making it larger than all the other elements in the painting, thereby calling attention to its use and placement in the
countryside. The diagonal movement of the rugged road at the left draws the eye up toward the sluice and then down to the land below. A
single figure populates the scene, but the sluice symbolizes the human presence in nature and human attempts to control it.
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Gerard Block (The Hague, The Netherlands) [sold, Verheyden, The Hague, February 25, 1744, lot 6, to Willem Lormier.]
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Willem Lormier, 1682 - 1758 (The Hague, The Netherlands; Rotterdam, The Netherlands) [sold, Lormier sale, Francken, The Hague, July
4, 1763, lot 225, to Balden.]
Source: RKDH, annotated sale catalogue.
Balden
Étienne-François, duc de Choiseul-Stainville, 1719 - 1785 (Paris, France; Château de Chanteloup, France) [sold, Choiseul sale, Boileau,
Paris, April 6, 1772, lot 66, to Letellier.]
Source: RKDH, annotated sale catalogue.
Letellier
Louis-François de Bourbon, Prince de Conti, 1717 - 1776 (Paris, France), upon his death, held in trust by the estate.
Estate of Louis-François de Bourbon, Prince de Conti, 1717 - 1776 [sold, Conti sale, Rémy, Paris, April 8, 1777, lot 406, to the Count of
Ossieu.]
Source: RKDH, annotated sale catalogue.
Count of Ossieu, bought at Conti sale.
Charles-Louis de Beauchamp, Comte de Merle, 1723 - 1793
Morelli [sold, Morelli sale, Lebrun, Paris, May 3, 1786, lot 54, to Lebrun.]
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun, 1748 - 1813 [sold, Lebrun, Paris, April 11, 1791, lot 52.]
Guillaume Thierry Arnaud Marie, baron of Brienen de Groote Lindt (The Hague, The Netherlands) [sold, Brienen de Groote Lindt sale,
Pillet, Paris, May 9, 1865, lot 32, to van Cuyck.]
van Cuyck
Source: Procès verbal, Arch. Paris D48E356.
Eugène Secrétan, 1836 - 1899 (Paris, France) [sold, Secrétan sale, Boussod, Valadon & Co. and Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, July 1,
1889, lot 160.]
Katherine Senney Simpson, died 1943 (New York, New York), consigned to M. Knoedler & Co., April, 1942.
Source: GRI, M. Knoedler & Co. records, Commission book 3, p. 132, no. 1881.
Knoedler & Company, 1846 - 2011 (London, England; New York, New York; Paris, France), sold to Harold E. Montag, June, 1943.
Source: JPGM, Paintings Department, curatorial files, invoice from M. Knoedler & Co. (June 2, 1943) and GRI, M. Knoedler & Co. records, Commission book 3, p. 132, no.
1881.
Harold E. Montag, 1897 - 1969 (Atlanta, Georgia), by inheritance to his wife, Rhea Hirsch Montag, 1969.
Rhea Hirsch Montag, 1899 - 1982, by bequest to the Georgia Institute of Technology, 1982.
Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia), sold to French and Company, 1985.
French and Company, Inc. (New York, New York), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1986.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), 1909
Duveen Galleries (New York), October 8 to November 7, 1942
Atlanta Art Association Galleries (Atlanta), February 6 to February 25, 1962
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles), June 26 to September 18, 2005
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Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia), October 23, 2005 to February 5, 2006
Royal Academy of Arts (London), February 25 to June 4, 2006
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