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

A wooded landscape in stormy weather with a pool, a peasant and a dog on a track

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Circle of Jacob Isaacsz. van Ruisdael (Haarlem 1628/9-1682 Amsterdam)
A wooded landscape in stormy weather with a pool, a peasant and a dog on a track
with signature 'JVRuisDael' (JVR linked, lower right)
oil on canvas
24 x 29.5/8 in. (62.8 x 75.3 cm.)

Provenance

Charles Scarisbrick (d. 1860), Scarisbrick Hall, Lancashire; (+) Christie's, London, May 1861 (90 gns. to the Earl of Dudley).
William, 1st Earl of Dudley (1817-1885), Dudley House, Park Lane; Christie's, London, 7 April 1876, lot 109 as Jacob Ruysdael [sic.] (44 gns. to Waters).
Curtis Newark.
Sir Stuart Duke-Elder.
Martin Ascher, before 1970.
with Arthur Tooth, London.

Literature

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonn, etc., IV, London, 1912, p. 236, no. 742d.

Lot Essay

This can be loosely compared with Ruisdael's Sunrise in a wood in the Wallace collection, London, no. P247, which Professor Wolfgang Stechow and Professor Seymour Slive both date to the 1670s. An attribution to Jacob Salomonsz. van Ruysdael (Haarlem c. 1630-1681) may be considered.

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