About the Artwork
A River Scene
1658
Meindert Hobbema
1638-1709
Dutch
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Oil on oak panel
Unframed: 20 3/4 × 26 7/8 inches (52.7 × 68.3 cm) Framed: 29 1/2 × 35 5/8 × 3 1/4 inches (74.9 × 90.5 × 8.3 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of James E. Scripps
89.38
Public Domain
Markings
Signed and dated, lower left: M HOBBEMA 1658 [M and H joined]
Provenance
Collection T.J. Ireland (possibly Ousden Hall, Suffolk, England);January 26, 1889, (Christie's, London, England) sale, lot 133 [as Jan van Goyen];
1889, James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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"The Scripps Old Masters." The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152; p. 150 [as by Myndert Hobbema].
Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, p. 27.
Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, p. 36, no. 47.
Hofstede de Groot, C. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 4. London, 1912, no. 255.
Catalofue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 52, no. 43 (ill.).
Valentiner, W.R. "Travel Notes." Bulletin of the DIA 10, no. 1 (1928): pp. 6-12 (ill.).
Rosenberg, J. Jacob van Ruisdael. Berlin, 1928, p. 37 (fig. 72, pl. XLVI) [dated as 1658].
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 99 (ill.).
Broulheit, G. Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709). Paris, 1938, pp. 31-32, 416, no. 286 (ill.) [dated as 1658].
"Artists Unappreciated in their Time." Exh. cat., Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, 1939, (ill.).
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 61, no. 99.
Stechow, W. "The Early Years of Hobbema." Art Quarterly 22 (1959): pp. 3-18 (fig. 1).
"Youthful Works by Great Artists." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 20, no. 3 (1963): p. 175, no. 16.
Stechow, W. Dutch Landscape Paintings of the Seventeeth Century. London, 1966, pp. 60, 76.
Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 108-109.
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Meindert Hobbema, A River Scene, 1658, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.38.
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