Name: JACOB ISAACKSZ. VAN RUISDAEL (HAARLEM 1628-1682 AMSTERDAM)
Brand: A dune landscape with a distant view of Haarlem
Price: 45000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

JACOB ISAACKSZ. VAN RUISDAEL (HAARLEM 1628-1682 AMSTERDAM)
A dune landscape with a distant view of Haarlem
signed and dated 'JVRuisdael / 1652' (lower left, 'JVR' in ligature)
oil on panel
18 x 25 in. (45.7 x 63.5 cm.)

Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun and Nicolas Lerouge; Paris, Chariot, 19 January 1778, lot 49 (550 francs to Chevin).
Jean-Baptiste-Guillaume de Gevigney (1729-1802); Paris, Paillet, 1 December 1779, lot 356 (340 livres to Joly).
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1927.
Richard Semmel, Berlin-Dahlem and Amsterdam; his sale, Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 21 November 1933, lot 53 (Dfl.2700).
Paul Cassirer & Co., Amsterdam, acquired from the above.
Eduard Vis, Amsterdam, acquired from the above, 11 January 1935, thence by descent to the current owner.

The present work is being offered for sale pursuant to an agreement between the consignor and the heirs of Richard Semmel. This resolves any dispute over ownership of the work and title will pass to the buyer.

Jakob Rosenberg, Jacob van Ruisdael, Berlin, 1928, p. 33, no. 43, fig. 65.
Seymour Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael, New Haven and London, 2001, p. 617, doubtful works no. 12.
Dr. Pieter Biesboer [private expertise].

Basel, Kunstmuseum, Zwei Ausstellungen aus Privatbesitz in der Schweiz : Meisterwerke Holländischer Malerei des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts im Kunstmuseum : 25 Werke von Vincent van Gogh, 23 June-19 August 1945, no. 80.
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans Van Beuningen, Meesterwerken uit vier eeuwen 1400-1800: tentoonstelling van schilderijen en teekeningen uit particuliere verzamelingen in Nederland bijeengebracht gedurende de veertigjarige regeering van H.M. Koningin Wilhemin, 25 June – 15 October, 1938, no. 27.

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Lot Essay

Ruisdael here presents us with a view southwards towards Haarlem, as we can conclude from the position of the St. Bavo Church on the far side of the bank of the river Spaarne. The surroundings of Haarlem were famous and the beauty of the woods, dunes and lakes were praised by Karel van Mander in his Schilderboeck of 1604. He recommended artists to visit the area for inspiration and the study of nature. Although the present painting was previously listed as a doubted work by Seymour Slive in his monograph on Ruisdael (Slive, loc. cit.), Slive only had access to an old black and white photograph and a subsequent cleaning has revealed the true qualities of the brushstrokes, particularly in the depiction of the foliage and the rendering of the trees and plants. The landscape is fully signed and dated 1652 and the compositional pattern can be found in other dated works by Ruisdael of 1651-2, like the monumental The Great Oak in Los Angeles County Museum (ibid, cat. no. 380).

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