Salomon van Ruysdael

Salomon van Ruysdael
Riverbank with a Village, 164(5?)
Oil on panel, 64 x 93 cm
Signed with monogram and dated
on the boat in the foreground: S v R 164(5?)
Stechow no. 512
Provenance
Charles Delbecque, member of the "Chambre des Représentants", Brussels (by 1886) (1) ▪ E. A.
Veltman, Bloemendaal (by 1935) & Bossum (by 1950) (2) ▪ M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (by
1954) (3) ▪ Emil Bührle, Zurich (27 May 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956) (4) ▪ Given by the heirs
of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich (1960), no. 163.
(1) Exposition de tableaux de maîtres anciens, (exh. cat.) Académie Royale de Belgique, Brussels 1886, no. 201.
(2) Cinq siècles d'art, (exh. cat.) Exposition universelle et internationale, Brussels 1935, no. 766; Le paysage
hollandais au XVIIe siècle, (exh. cat.) Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris 1950, no. 80.
(3) AStEGB, Invoice from M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, made out to Emil Bührle, 26 May 1954, for two
paintings, Rembrandt, "Still Life with Dead Game", and Ruysdael, "Au Bord du Fleuve", with detailed
provenance, exhibition and publication references.
(4) Acquired from the above for a total of $ 125.000 for the two paintings, Invoice as above, n. (3), and AStEGB,
Letter from Charles R. Henschel [Head of M. Knoedler & Co., Inc.], New York, to Emil Bührle, 27 May 1954,
acknowledging receipt of the check.
Exhibitions
Exposition de tableaux de maîtres anciens, Académie Royale de Belgique, Brussels 1886, no. 201. ▪
Tentoonstelling Oude Kunst in Particulier Bezit te Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem 1926–27,
no. 15. ▪ Cinq siècles d'art, Exposition universelle et internationale, Brussels 1935, no. 766. ▪
Tentoostelling van Werken door Salomon van Ruysdael, Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker N. V.,
Amsterdam 1936, no. 20. ▪ Le paysage hollandais au XVIIe siècle, Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris
1950, no. 80.
References
Wolfgang Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, Eine Einführung in seine Kunst mit kritischem Katalog der
Gemälde, Berlin 1938, no. 512 (21975). ▪ Peter C. Sutton, John Lougham, The Golden Age of Dutch
Landscape Painting, (exh. cat.) Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid 1994, p. 216 (n. 2; Spanish
edition: El Siglo de Oro del Paisaje Holandés).
Catalogues of the Bührle Collection: 1966 & 1971, no. 163; 1973/86, no. 161; 1994/95, p. 17;
2004/05: no. 21. ▪ Exhibitions of the Bührle Collection: Jegenstorf 1955, no. 21; Zurich 1958, no.
74; Munich 1958–59, no. 142; Zurich 2010, no. 163.
Catalogues, exhibitions and articles cited in full see http://www.buehrle.ch/pdf/egbcat.pdf.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Status as per January 2016
www.buehrle.ch / [email protected]
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