Circle of Jacob van Ruisdael (Haarlem 1628/9-c. 1682 Amsterdam)
Circle of Jacob van Ruisdael (Haarlem 1628/9-c. 1682 Amsterdam)

An estuary with smalschips and a galjoot in choppy waters, a village with a church beyond

Details
Circle of Jacob van Ruisdael (Haarlem 1628/9-c. 1682 Amsterdam)
An estuary with smalschips and a galjoot in choppy waters, a village with a church beyond
oil on canvas
20 7/8 x 27 in. (53 x 68.5 cm.)
Provenance
Humphrey Ward, London.
James Walter, London.
with F. Kleinberger, Paris, from whom acquired in 1906 for
Marcus Kappel, Berlin.
with Van Diemen, Berlin, 1924.
with Slatter, Amsterdam.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 July 1989, lot 17, as 'Jacob Isaaksz. van Ruisdael'.
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., London, IV, 1912, p. 292, no. 943.
W. Bode, Die Gemäldesammlungen Marcus Kappel in Berlin, Berlin, 1914, p. 23, pl. 28.
J. Rosenberg, Jacob van van Ruisdael, Berlin, 1928, p. 108, no. 578.
S. Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings and Etchings, New Haven and London, 2001, p. 667, no. dub151, under 'dubious and wrongly attributed paintings'.

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Lot Essay

Slive compares this composition with a painting by Ruisdael in the National Gallery, London (op. cit., pp. 458-9, no. 649).

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