JACOB VAN RUISDAEL (Haarlem 1628/29 – 1682 Amsterdam) A
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JACOB VAN RUISDAEL (Haarlem 1628/29 – 1682 Amsterdam) A
VP4779 JACOB VAN RUISDAEL (Haarlem 1628/29 – 1682 Amsterdam) A wooded river Landscape with Figures crossing a Bridge Signed, lower right: JvRuisdael (JvR linked) Oil on canvas, 24 x 29 ins. (60.9 x 75.4 cm) PROVENANCE Redron Collection Alexander Baring, 4th Baron Ashburton (1835-1889), London Sale, Christie’s, London, 8 June 1872, lot 59 (320 gns. to Everard) Thomas Nunn Gladdish, Pettings, Ash, Kent His sale, Christie’s, London, 23 June 1877, lot 126 (147 gns. to Lessor) Max Kahn, Paris His sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 3 March 1879, lot 56, where described as “beau tableau du maître d’une parfait conservation” (10,000 francs), where acquired by Léon Émile Brault (1825-1910), and by descent to the previous owner Private collection, Europe, until 2015 LITERATURE C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, vol. IV, 1912, p. 213, no. 675a A. I. Davies, Jan van Kessel (1641-1680), Doornspijk, 1992, pp. 36, 41 and 171, under no. 79 S. Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael, New Haven and London, 2001, p. 306, no. 404 ENGRAVED Léon Gaucherel (1816-1887)