JACOB VAN RUISDAEL (Haarlem 1628/29 – 1682 Amsterdam) A

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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)