Details
JACOB VAN RUISDAEL (HAARLEM 1628⁄29-1682 AMSTERDAM)
A watermill at the edge of a wood
signed with monogram 'JVR' ('JVR' linked, lower left)
oil on canvas
29 ¾ x 38 ¾ in. (75.5 x 98.4 cm.)
Provenance
M. Marin; his sale, Lebrun, Paris, 22 March 1790 (=1st day), lot 141 (1,010 livres to J. Desmarest).
Claude Tolozan (1728-1796), Paris; his sale (†), Paillet, Paris, 26 February 1801 (=4th day), lot 99 (2,455 livres to de Depernon).
Pierre Rambaut; his sale, Henry, Paris, 1 April 1817 (=2nd day), lot 61 (4,000 francs to Bouché).
Jean-Pierre Varroc or Pierre Joseph Lafontaine; his sale, Henry, Paris, 28 May-2 June 1821, lot 70 (5,500 francs to Laneuville).
Anonymous sale; Phillips, London, 29 June 1830 (=1st day), lot 78, where unsold.
Anonymous sale; Phillips, London, 20 July 1835 (=2nd day), lot 143 (240 gns.).
Charles Scarisbrick (1801-1860), Scarisbrick Hall and Wrighton Hall, Lancashire; his sale (†), Christie's, London, 13 May 1861 (=2nd day), lot 229, where acquired for 200 gns. by,
John Tayleur (before 1840-1922), Buntingsdale Hall, Market Drayton, Shropshire; (†), Christie's, London, 13 April 1923, lot 53, where acquired for 2,300 gns. by the following,
with Knoedler Gallery, London and New York, where acquired on 12 November 1923 by,
Frank Porter Wood (1882-1955), Toronto, Ontario, from whom acquired in shares by the following,
with Knoedler Gallery, Scott & Fowles, and Colnaghi, from whom acquired on 20 November 1925 by the following,
with Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts.
Clement Orville Miniger (1874-1944), Perrysburg, Ohio, and by descent to his daughter,
Mrs George M. Jones, Jr., Toledo, Ohio, by whom given in 1975 to,
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; Sotheby's, New York, 25 January 2007, lot 62.
with Kunsthandel Xaver Scheidwimmer, Munich, where acquired on 15 March 2012 by the late owner.
Literature
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, London, 1835, VI, pp. 27, no. 68, and 101, no. 322.
C. Blanc, Le Trésor de la Curiosité..., Paris, 1858, II, pp. 188, 347-348.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1912, VI, pp. 56, no. 161, and 58, no. 169b.
F. Lugt, Les dessins des écoles du nord de la collection Dutuit au Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 1927, p. 23, under no. 42.
J. Rosenberg, Jacob van Ruisdael, Berlin, 1928, no. 629.
K.E. Simon, Jacob van Ruisdael: Eine Darstellung seiner Entwicklung, Berlin, 1930, pp. 74 and 82.
G. Broulhiet, Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709), Paris, 1938, p. 103, fig. 2, as Meindert Hobbema.
L.D.J. Frerichs, Keuze van tekeningen bewaard in het Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1963, pp. 85-86, under no. 73, as Meindert Hobbema.
S. Slive, 'Additions to Jacob van Ruisdael', The Burlington Magazine, CXXXIII, no. 1062, September 1991, p. 602.
E. John Walford, Jacob van Ruisdael and the Perception of Landscape, New Haven and London, 1991, pp. 124-125, fig. 128.
J. Edwards, Alexandre-Joseph Paillet: Expert et marchand de tableaux à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1996, p. 297, no. 99.
S. Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings and Etchings, London and New Haven, 2001, pp. 142-143, no. 124, and 496-497, under no. D6.
S. Slive, in Jacob van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape, exhibition catalogue, London, 2005, p. 190, under no. 75, fig. 74a.
Exhibited
The Hague, Koninklijke Kunstzaal Kleykamp, Tentoonstelling van schilderijen door oud-Hollandsche en Vlaamsche Meesters, 1925, no. 46.
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