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3058

Jacob Isaacksz. Van Ruisdael

Haarlem 1628/ 1629 – 1682 Amsterdam

Waterfall with a half-timbered house on a rocky outcrop. Circa 1665

Oil on canvas. 69,8 x 54,5 cm (27 ½ x 21 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Jacob Isaacksz. Van Ruisdael. Waterfall with a half-timbered house on a rocky outcrop. Circa 1665.

Estimate:

EUR 180,000

 

- 240,000

USD 201,000

 

- 268,000

Sold for:

805,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 237-246

The Rohde-Hinze Collection 1 – Old Masters, Friday, 03.07.2015

Information

Oil on canvas. 69,8 x 54,5 cm (27 ½ x 21 ½ in.). Signed on the rocks lower left: JvRuisdael (JvR joined, partly worked over) / on the frame on the reverse in red chalk: Rohde; in white chalk: 52 / On the reverse on the stretcher a label of the stationer A. Binant, Paris. Catalogue raisonné: Accompanied by a certificate by Wilhelm von Bode, Berlin, dated 25 March 1924, where described as a "sehr sympathisches Werk des Jacob van Ruisdael aus seiner mittleren Zeit (um 1665/70)“ (in the original). Relined. In a 19th century frame after 18th century English examples (92,5 x 79 cm). Framed

Literature regarding the artist: Arnold Houbraken: De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche kunstschilders en schilderesse, 3 vols., Amsterdam 1718–21, vol. 3 (1721), p. 65–66 / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Ruysdael als Dichter, in: Goethes Werke, Hamburg 1963, vol. 12, p. 138–142.

Companion piece: traditionally considered a companion piece to Ruisdaels "Wasserfall", oil on canvas, 68 x 52 cm, formerly collection Alfred and Jacob Rosenbaum, Munich (Rosenberg 1928, no. 196a / Slive 2001, no. 238).

Collection of the architect Pierre Vigné de Vigny (1690–1772), Paris / 1773–86 collection of the art dealer and painter Vincent Donjeux (died 1793), Paris / 1786 collection Changrand (Marquis de Changrand?) / art dealer Joseph Depret, Paris / 1925 collection Frieda Hinze, Berlin / collection Elisabeth Rohde, Berlin.

Source, collection Rohde-Hinze: receipt, art dealer Joseph Depret, Paris, 21 March 1925, as "Bild Ruysdael“, 4.700 RM

Gemälde Alter Meister aus Berliner Besitz. Ausstellung in der Akademie der Künste Berlin, exh. cat. (with an introduction by Wilhelm von Bode), Berlin July-August 1925, cat. no. 334

Auction catalogue: Pierre Vigné de Vigny and Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun, P. Remy, Paris, 1 April 1773, lot 55 (together with the companion piece, 451 Francs) / Auction catalogue: Alexandre-Josephe Paille, Paris, 6-18 February 1786, lots 127 and 128 (together with the companion piece, 624 Francs) / Gemälde alter Meister aus Berliner Privatbesitz, exhibition, Akademie der Künste, Berlin 1925, no. 334 / Adolph Donath: Alter Meister aus Berliner Privat-besitz. Die Ausstellung in der Akademie, in: Der Kunstwanderer, vol. 7 (1925), no. 1/2, p. 422-424, p. 424 / Jakob Rosenberg: Jakob van Ruisdael, Berlin 1928, p. 80, no. 136 / Seymour Slive: Jakob van Ruisdael. A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings and Etchings, New Haven and London 2001, p. 248, no. 303 with illustration