Jan van Kessel

With the Alfred Brod Gallery, London, by 1959;
With Julius Boehler, Munich, by 1963.

W. Stechow, 'Ruisdael in the Cleveland Museum', in Bulletin of Cleveland Museum of Art, 55, Cleveland 1968, reproduced p. 259;
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum Catalogue, Cleveland 1982, p. 263, under cat. no. 115;
A.I. Davies, Jan van Kessel, Ghent 1992, p. 188, cat. no. 107, reproduced plate 107.

The picture is in good overall condition, the canvas has a hard relining. There is faint craquelure apaprent in the sky on the left throughout the darker areas of foliage. The paint surface is stable and there is no flaking or loss of paint. Some discoloured retouching is visible to the naked eye on the right hand side, comprising of flecks in the sky and a more distinct area along the right hand edge of the canvas. This lot is sold in a dark wooden frame with a pretty and simple carved pattern, in good condition.
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This picture is similar in conception to a work entitled Chapel by a Torrent by Ruisdael, currently in the Cleveland Museum of Art (inv. no. 62.256) and if not inspired directly by it, it is likely to be derived from the same source.