Wooded Landscape with a Pond

Wooded Landscape with a Pond

RP-T-1984-11

draftsman (artist): Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael

c. 1650 - c. 1655

black chalk, with grey wash (some passages possibly by a later hand); framing line in brown ink

height 198 mm x width 309 mm

purchase 1984

Public domain

…; collection Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-98), Amsterdam (L. 3002-04);{According to the inscription on the drawing of the Ploos van Amstel album and inv. no., identified by Bonny van Sighem (personal communication, 2000).} ? his sale, Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 3 March 1800 sqq., Album T, no. 9 (‘Een Boomryk Landschap, met een Waterplas, allerschoonst van houding en behandeling, met dito, [zwart Kryt en O.I. Inkt] door J. Ruisdaal’), with no. 10, fl. 176 for both, to ‘Boddens’;{Copy RKD.} …; sale, Jonkheer Johan Adriaan Repelaer van Driel (1889-1966, The Hague and Walenstadt) and Hermanus Petrus Beens (?-1966, Rijswijk), The Hague (Venduhuis der Notarissen), 7 November 1967 sqq., no. 168; …; collection Dr Willem van Dalfsen (1909-78), Arnhem and Blokzijl;{Note RMA.} his widow, W.L.W.E. van Dalfsen-Mulder, Blokzijl; from whom, fl. 60,000, to the museum (L. 2228), with the support of an anonymous donor and the Ministerie van WVC (Ministry of Health and Culture), 1984

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

• E. Koolhaas-Grosfeld, Woestenijen en schone velden. Variaties in het landschap van de achttiende eeuw, Kunstschrift, jaargang 51, nr. 3 (juni/juli 2007), p. 17, afb. 17
• J. Giltay, 'de tekeningen van Jacob van Ruisdael', Oud Holland 94 (1980), p. 155, afb. 21, cat.nr., 113.

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