Lot 174
  • 174

Salomon van Ruysdael

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Salomon van Ruysdael
  • Landscape with wagons on a sandy road with other travellers and cows, a church beyond
  • signed and dated lower centre: S. VRVYSDAEL / 1647 (VR in ligature)
  • oil on oak panel
  • 44 x 67 cm

Provenance

With Karl Haberstock, Berlin;
With P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1954;
With Julius Böhler, Munich;
With Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, from whom almost certainly acquired by the father of the present owner.

Literature

W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael: eine Einführung in seine Kunst, Berlin 1975, p. 97, cat. no. 192c.

Condition

The panel is flat and uncradled. The upper edge is a little uneven. The old varnish is now a little yellowed. The paint surface appears to be in excellent condition throughout, with little or no sign of wear and no major damages. Restoration is confined to a limited number of scattered local retouchings. This lot is offered in a later gilt wood frame in the French style in very good condition.
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