Salomon Van Ruysdael

M. Laurent-Richard, Neuilly;

His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 23-25 May 1878, lot 108, for 4,950 francs;

Count Paul Demidoff (1839-1885), Villa di San Donato, Florence;

His sale on the premises, Pillet, Le Roy, Mannheim, 15-17 March 1880, lot 1106, for 6,100 lire;

Possibly J.F. Du Sart;

Possibly his estate sale, Brussels, J. & A. Le Roy, 26–28 June 1884, lot 129;

Comtesse de Labadye, Paris;

With François Kleinberger, Paris, 1903;

Jonckheer Ch. van de Poll, Haarlem, by 1915;

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 7 November 1978, lot 92, for 740,000 guilders;

British Rail Pension Fund, London, probably by 1981;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby’s, 5 July 1995, lot 32;

Where acquired by Robert Noortman, London;

From whom acquired by Michel David-Weill (1932-2022), New York and Paris;

With Robert Noortman, London;

From whom acquired by the present collector, after 2004.

London, Geffrye Museum, long-term loan, 1981 - 1995.

G.D. Gratama, "Tentoonstelling van Oude kunst uit het bezit van bewoners van Haarlem en omstreken," in Onze Kunst 28 (1915), reproduced p. 77;

W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, Berlin 1975, p. 77, cat. no. 57 (as signed but not dated);

W. Liedtke, Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. II, New Haven and London 2007, p. 809 note 11, under cat. no. 185 (with incorrect date of 1650).