Oil on oak panel, unsigned, 18th century or earlier, retaining a Sammlung Schubart label to the verso, inscribed "51" to top center verso of panel and inscribed in white chalk to verso "nach Bad Homburg," presented in a 20th century gilt composition frame.

Panel 22.5 x 28 1/8 in.; DOA 29.5 x 35.25 in.

Private Estate Collection, Elkin, NC

Collection of Dr. Martin Schubart (1840-1899), Dresden and Munich, Germany (+) sale, Helbing, Munich, 23 October, 1899, lot 62, (as by Jacob van Ruisdael)

Literature:
C. Hofstede de Groot, Sammlung Schubart früher Dresden jetzt München: eine Auswahl von Werken alter Meister aus dieser Sammlung, Munich 1893, p. 19 (as by Jacob van Ruisdael)

Ex. cat. Sammlung Schubart: Gemälde älterer Meister, Munich (Königlicher Kunstaustellungspalast) 1895, p. 2, no. 56 (as by Jacob van Ruisdael)

C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, Esslingen 1907-1928, vol. 4 (1911), p. 245, under no. 820 (as copy after Jacob van Ruisdael)

S. Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: a complete catalogue of his paintings, drawings and etchings, New Haven 2001, under no. 589 (as copy after Jacob van Ruisdael)


This painting is included in the files as a free copy after Jacob van Ruisdael in the files of RKD. It is a near copy of a painting generally considered to be an authentic work by Jacob van Ruisdael in the Schlossmuseum Weimar.

We wish to thank Ellis Dullaart MA, Curator Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings at RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, for her kind assistance in cataloguing this painting.

Stable check to panel.

$2,000 - 4,000