SALOMON VAN RUYSDAEL (NAARDEN ?1600⁄3-1670 HAARLEM)
SALOMON VAN RUYSDAEL (NAARDEN ?1600⁄3-1670 HAARLEM)
SALOMON VAN RUYSDAEL (NAARDEN ?1600⁄3-1670 HAARLEM)
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SALOMON VAN RUYSDAEL (NAARDEN 1600⁄3-1670 HAARLEM)

A river estuary with sailboats and fishermen pulling in nets, a fortified castle and horse-drawn wagon on the bank

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SALOMON VAN RUYSDAEL (NAARDEN 1600⁄3-1670 HAARLEM)
A river estuary with sailboats and fishermen pulling in nets, a fortified castle and horse-drawn wagon on the bank
signed with initials 'VR' ('VR' linked, centre left, on the wagon)
oil on canvas
25 7⁄8 x 35 5⁄8 in. (65.8 x 89.9 cm.)
Provenance
Count Holstein, Holsteinborg, Själand, Denmark, recorded in an inventory of 1710, and by descent.
Anonymous sale [Property of a Nobleman]; Christie's, London, 15 April 1983, lot 83.
with Johnny van Haeften, London, from whom acquired by the present owner in 1994.
Literature
W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, Berlin, 1975, p. 157, no. 569.
Exhibited
Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen, Fortegnelse over Billeder af Gammel Kunst, October 1891, no. 198.

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Lot Essay


Wolfgang Stechow (loc. cit.) noted that the present painting may well be the pendant to another work of similar scale, dated 1664, and likewise recorded in the collection of Count Holstein at Holsteinborg Castle in 1710 (Stechow, op. cit., no. 384; sold Sotheby’s, London, 13 December 2001, lot 7). In his late paintings, as here, Ruysdael eschewed his earlier tonal tendencies in favour of a colourful palette and monumental design that was consistent with the then-fashionable ‘classical’ phase of Dutch landscape painting.

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