Collecting Passions – Old Master Paintings from an Important Private Collection
Jacob Isaacksz. van Ruisdael
Farmhouses in a wooded hilly landscape with figures on a path near water
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Collecting Passions – Old Master Paintings from an Important Private Collection
Jacob Isaacksz. van Ruisdael
Haarlem 1628/9–1682 Amsterdam
Farmhouses in a wooded hilly landscape with figures on a path near water
signed lower right: JvRuisdael (JvR in ligature)
oil on canvas
unframed: 107.2 x 128.7 cm.; 42⅛ x 50⅝ in.
framed: 132.1 x 153.1 cm.; 52 x 60¼ in.
Richard Clemson Barnett (1777–1858), Chester Terrace, London;
By whose Executors sold, London, Christie’s, 18 June 1881, lot 127 (as ‘J. Ruysdael’), for £441, to Lesser;
Julius Meyer (1830–1893), Director of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin;
Alexander Twietmeyer (1846/7–1911), Leipzig, by 1889;
With Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, by 1901;
His sale, Paris, Galerie Sedelmeyer, 25–28 May 1907, lot 163, for 33,000 French francs;
Marczell von Nemes (1866–1930), Budapest, by 1910;
Dr Karl Lanz (1873–1921), Mannheim, by 1917;
With Karl Haberstock, Berlin, by 1924;
His sale, Amsterdam, Muller, 13 July 1926, lot 684;
Max von Gimborn (1872–1964), Doorn, by 1928;
With Kunsthandel Xaver Scheidwimmer, Munich, by 1955;
From whom acquired by Günter (1899–1979) and Anne Liese Henle (1908–1997), Duisburg, from 1955;
Their posthumous sale, London, Sotheby’s, 3 December 1997, lot 22, to Johnny van Haeften/Kunsthandel Bernheimer;
Acquired from the above for the present collection in 2000.
Berlin, Preussische Akademie der Künste, Ausstellung von Gemälden älterer Meister im Berliner Privatbesitz, 25 January – 31 March 1883, no. 22 (lent by Julius Meyer);
Leipzig, Leipziger Kunstverein, Einundzwanzigste Sonderausstellung ältere Meister aus Sächsischem Privatbesitz, 1889–1890, no. 202 (lent by Alexander Twietmeyer);
Budapest, Szépművészeti Múzeum, Nemes Marcell képgyűjteményének kiállítása a Szépművészeti Múzeumban / Catalogue des Peintures de la Collection Marcel de Nemes, 1910–1911, no. 46;
Mannheim, Kunsthalle; and Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe, Gemälde aus der Sammlung Dr. Karl Lanz, December 1912 – February 1913; andMarch–April 1913, no. 38;
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Die Sammlung Henle: aus dem grossen Jahrhundert der niederländischen Malerei, 22 February – 5 April 1964, no. 33.
A. Bredius, 'Die Ausstellung alter Gemälde aus sächsischem Privatbesitz in Leipzig', in Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, vol. I, 1890, p. 191, no. 202;
C. Sedelmeyer, Illustrated catalogue of the seventh series of 100 paintings by old masters, Paris 1901, p. 50, no. 41, reproduced;
G.v. Terey, 'Die Sammlung Marczell von Nemes in Budapest', in Kunst und Künstler, vol. IX, 1911, p. 223;
C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné…, vol. IV, London 1912, pp. 251–52, no. 798 and p. 267, no. 856a;
42 Gemälde aus der Sammlung Dr. Karl Lanz, Mannheim, exh. cat., Mannheim 1913, p. 15, no. 38, reproduced;
G. Biermann (ed.), Ausstellung der Sammlung Dr. Karl Lanz, exh. cat., Darmstadt 1913, no. 38, reproduced;
Gemäldesammlung Dr. Karl Lanz, Mannheim 1917, p. 32, no. 68;
'B.', 'Neuigkeiten', in Kunstchronik und Kunstmarkt, vol. 59, no. 1, April 1925, p. 27, reproduced;
J. Rosenberg, Jacob van Ruisdael, Berlin 1928, p. 103, no. 494;
K.E. Simon, Jacob van Ruisdael. Eine Darstellung seiner Entwicklung, Berlin 1930, p. 43;
H. Vey, Die Sammlung Henle: aus dem grossen Jahrhundert der niederländischen Malerei, exh. cat., Cologne 1964, pp. 77–78, no. 33, reproduced;
S. Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael. A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings and Etchings, New Haven and London 2001, pp. 403–04, no. 563, reproduced in colour.
Engraved
Samuel Middiman, London, when in the collection of Richard Clemson Barnett.
