Salomon van Ruysdael Naarden 1600/3 - 1670 Haarlem

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Description

Salomon van Ruysdael
A river landscape with fishermen and sportsmen in boats, a church tower beyond
signed in monogram and dated lower centre: S.VR (in ligature). 1636
oil on panel

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 9 December 1902, lot 54, for 1200 florins to Smith;
W. Smith, Rotterdam;
J. van Hoey Smith, Rotterdam, by 1907;
Anonymous sale, The Hague, Van Marle & Bignell, 7 June 1973, lot 254;
With P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1974, from whom bought by the parents of the present owners.

Exhibited

Rotterdam, Rotterdamsche Kunstkring, Catalogus der Tentoonstelling van Oude Schilderijen in Rotterdams particulier bezit, 1907, p. 38, no. 54 (as dated 1626);
Amsterdam, P. de Boer, Collection 1974-Catalogue, cat. no. 20, reproduced.

Literature

W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, Berlin 1938, p. 120, no. 444;
W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, revised ed., Berlin 1975, p. 137, no. 444.

Catalogue Note

This is typical early work by Salomon van Ruysdael, dating from the 1630s. It reveals the influence of those other great pioneers of early Dutch landscape painting, Jan van Goyen (1596-1656) and Esaias van de Velde (1587-1630), of whose work Ruysdael was doubtless aware. Although the usual elements from the landscapes of his peers are present in his work, a bell tower, the floating fishing net and some cattle and a herdsman to the background, his use of gentle light through the branches of the trees and on the shore point to Ruysdael’s gradual evolution of his own independent style.