About the Artwork
River Landscape
1643
Salomon Jacobsz van Ruysdael
1600/1603-1670
Dutch
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 39 1/4 × 54 inches (99.7 × 137.2 cm) Framed: 47 7/8 × 62 3/4 × 3 1/2 inches (121.6 × 159.4 × 8.9 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of James E. Scripps
89.43
Public Domain
Markings
Signed and dated, lower left on boat: S. Ruysdael. 1643.
Provenance
Collection Gerrit Braamcamp (probably Amsterdam, Netherlands);June 4, 1766, (De Bosch, Cok, probably Amsterdam, Netherlands) lot 10;
1766, Fouquet [bought for fl. 32];
Collection Corbett Winder (Vaynor Park, Berriew, Wales);
April 6, 1889, sale (Christie's, London, England) lot 63;
1889, Deacon [bought for pounds sterling 105].
James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Catalogue of the Scripps Collection. Detroit, 1889, no. 55.
Catalogue of Dutch & Flemish Pictures and a Few Modern Pictures, the Property of Major Corbett-Winder; A Small Collection of Ancient and Modern Pictures, of T.S. Starkey, Esq., of Huttons Ambo, York; and Others from Different Private Collections. Sales cat., Christie, Manson & Woods. London, April 6, 1889, p. 9, no. 63 [as "A View Near Dort"].
"The Scripps Old Masters." The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152, p. 151 [as "A View Near Dort"].
Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, p. 30.
Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, p. 39, no. 51 [as A View of Dordrecht].
Burroughs, C. Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 56, no. 52 (ill.).
Ninth Loan Exhibition of Dutch Genre and Landscape Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1929, p. xvi, no. 63.
Heil, W. "Holländische Ausstellung im Detroiter Museum." Pantheon 5 (1930): pp. 32-36.
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 197 (ill.).
Richardson, E.P. "From Old Bruegel to Van Goyen." Art Quarterly 1, no. 3 (1938): pp. 181-203 (fig. 13).
Stechow, W. Salomon van Ruysdael. Eine Einführung in seine Kunst. Berlin, 1938, p. 107, no. 341.
Stechow, W. "Salomon van Ruysdael's Paintings in America." Art Quarterly 2 (1939): pp. 251-264.
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 116, no. 197.
Bille, Clara. De Tempel der Kunst of het Kabinet van den Heer Braamcamp, vol. 2. Amsterdam, 1961, p. 82 [cited under sale of June 4, 1766, lot 10].
Stechow, W. "Review of C. Bille, De Tempel der Kunst of het Kabinet van den Heer Braamcamp." Art Bulletin 44 (1962): pp. 151-152.
Stechow, W. Salomon van Ruisdael. Eine Einführung in seine Kunst. Berlin, 1975, p. 120, no. 341 [cites Braamcamp provenance].
Cummings, Frederick J., ed. Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, pp. 69, 75, no. 45 (ill.).
Wissman, F. W. European Vistas: Cultural Landscapes. Detroit, 2000, pp. 58-59, 61 (ill.).
Masters of Dutch Painting, The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 216-217.
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Salomon Jacobsz van Ruysdael, River Landscape, 1643, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.43.
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