JACOB VAN RUISDAEL (HAARLEM 1628⁄9-1682 AMSTERDAM)
JACOB VAN RUISDAEL (HAARLEM 1628⁄9-1682 AMSTERDAM)
JACOB VAN RUISDAEL (HAARLEM 1628⁄9-1682 AMSTERDAM)
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JACOB VAN RUISDAEL (HAARLEM 1628⁄9-1682 AMSTERDAM)
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PROPERTY FROM THE STERN COLLECTION : LES STERN - UNE FAMILLE DE COLLECTIONNEURS (LOTS 8 & 9)
JACOB VAN RUISDAEL (HAARLEM 1628⁄9-1682 AMSTERDAM)

A wooded landscape with cottages, villagers and a dog beyond

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JACOB VAN RUISDAEL (HAARLEM 1628⁄9-1682 AMSTERDAM)
A wooded landscape with cottages, villagers and a dog beyond
signed and dated 'JvRuisdael / 1648' (lower left, 'JvR' in ligature)
oil on panel
23 x 28 1⁄8 in. (58.5 x 71.3 cm.)
Provenance
(Probably) Baron François-Benjamin-Marie Delessert (1780-1868), 21 rue Raynouard, Paris; his sale (†), Petit & Pillet, Paris, 16 March 1869 (=2nd day), lot 81, as ‘Paysage. Une route sablonneuse ombragée d’un grand arbre, trois chaumières et une mare d’eau sur le devant’ (2,600 FF).
Edgard-Salomon Stern (1854-1937) and Marguerite Stern née Fould (1866-1956), Château de Villette, Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Oise.
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. ST 68).
Acquired by Hermann Göring (1893-1946) from the above, 8 December 1941 (RM no. 1120).
Recovered by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section from Berchtesgaden, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 29 July 1945 (MCCP no. 5819 with frame, MCCP no. 6453).
Returned to France on 18 April 1946 and restituted to the Stern family on 21 May 1946.
Maurice Stern (1888-1962), 5 avenue George V, Paris, where recorded in his posthumous inventory of 1962, and by descent.
Literature
(Probably) ‘Catalogue de la collection de tableaux de MM. Delessert (1),’ Bulletin des Arts, IV, 1845, p. 47, no. 106.
(Probably) Notice sur la collection de tableaux de MM. Delessert, Paris, 1846, p. 59, no. 455.
(Probably) C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the 17th Century, London, 1912, IV, p. 266, no. 854.
Succession de Monsieur Maurice Stern: Inventaire, objets d’art, Tapisserie, Tableaux et Miniatures garnissant un appartement sis à Paris, 5 avenue George V, December 1962, p. 9, listed in the dining room.
S. Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings and Etchings, New Haven and London, 2001, pp. 404-5, no. 566, fig. 566, with incorrect dimensions.
N.H. Yeide, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection, Dallas, 2009, pp. 163 and 375, no. A1135, illustrated.
J.-M. Dreyfus, Le catalogue Goering, Paris, 2015, pp. 494-5, no. RM1120, F850, illustrated.

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