Lot Essay
Jeroen Giltay has, on the basis of a photograph, confirmed the attribution, and suggests that the present lot belongs to a group of
sketches probably dating to circa 1648-55, which includes the previously unknown drawing sold in these Rooms, 15 November 1993, lot 99, illustrated. Other drawings from this group were published by Giltay, De Tekeningen van Jacob van Ruisdael, Catalogus van Tekeningen van Jacob van Ruisdael, Oud Holland, 1980, XCIV, pp. 141-208, nos. 11-2, 30, 63, 66, 87, 93-4, 102-3. None of these can be related to Ruisdael's pictures. The subject may be compared to Ruisdael's picture of The Mill at Wijk bij Duurstede dated to circa 1670 in the Rijksmuseum and to his panoramic view of Amsterdam overlooking the river Amstel, now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (H.R. Hoetink, F.J. Duparc, Jacob van Ruisdael 1628/29-1682, exhibition catalogue, The Hague, 1981-2, nos. 39 and 56).
sketches probably dating to circa 1648-55, which includes the previously unknown drawing sold in these Rooms, 15 November 1993, lot 99, illustrated. Other drawings from this group were published by Giltay, De Tekeningen van Jacob van Ruisdael, Catalogus van Tekeningen van Jacob van Ruisdael, Oud Holland, 1980, XCIV, pp. 141-208, nos. 11-2, 30, 63, 66, 87, 93-4, 102-3. None of these can be related to Ruisdael's pictures. The subject may be compared to Ruisdael's picture of The Mill at Wijk bij Duurstede dated to circa 1670 in the Rijksmuseum and to his panoramic view of Amsterdam overlooking the river Amstel, now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (H.R. Hoetink, F.J. Duparc, Jacob van Ruisdael 1628/29-1682, exhibition catalogue, The Hague, 1981-2, nos. 39 and 56).