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Attributed to Salomon van Ruysdael Naarden 1600/3 - 1670 Haarlem
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Description
- Salomon van Ruysdael
- river landscape with two small boats to the left and a bridge to the right
- bears indistinct monogram, lower left corner
- black chalk, within dark brown ink framing lines
Provenance
Dr. C.R. Rudolf (L.2811b, on mount);
with The Brod Gallery, London;
Herbert Girardet
Exhibited
Köln, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, and Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Sammlung Herbert Girardet, Holländische und Flämische Meister, 1970, cat. no. 97 (illus., as Salomon van Ruysdael)
Catalogue Note
Despite various recent exhibitions and studies of 17th-century Dutch landscape drawings, the drawing style of Salomon van Ruysdael, one of the leading landscape painters of the period, remains relatively undefined. With the exception of the underdrawings detectable in some of his paintings, no drawings can be unequivocally attributed to the artist, so attributions rest largely on comparisons with his paintings. On this basis, the traditional attribution of the present drawing to Ruysdael, though hard to prove, should not be rejected out of hand, particularly since the style cannot easily be related to that of any of the other main artists who were producing paintings of this type of composition during the second quarter of the 17th century (the period when this drawing must surely have been executed).