Panoramic View of Amsterdam, Looking towards the IJ

Panoramic View of Amsterdam, Looking towards the IJ

RP-T-1960-116

draftsman (artist): Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael, Amsterdam

c. 1665

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

height 85 mm x width 150 mm

purchase 1960

Public domain

...; anonymous sale, Amsterdam (H. de Winter and J. Yver), 12 February 1770 sqq., Album D, no. 283 (‘Een Gezicht van het Dorp Ouderkerk aan den Amstel en een Gezicht ziende van het verbrande Dak van de Nieuwe Kerk te Amsterdam over de Stad, getekend in de manier als de voorgaande, [met zwart Kryd, door J. Ruisdael]’); …; sale, Hendrik Busserus (1701-81, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 21 October 1782 sqq., Album 32, no. 2192 (‘Twee stuks, de Luthersche Nieuwe Kerk, en een gezicht over de Stad Amsterdam, met zwart Kryt, door J. Ruysdaal’), with one other drawing, fl. 4:10:- for both, to ‘IJver’;{Copy RMA.} …; anonymous sale, Amsterdam (J. Roos), 11 March 1789 sqq., Album 2, no. 28 (‘Amsterdam van het verbrande Dak der Nieuwe Kerk af te zien, door J. Ruisdaal’); …; collection Friedrich August II, King of Saxony (1797-1854), Dresden (L. 971); his wife, Maria Anna Leopoldine Elisabeth Wilhelmine, Princess of Bavaria (1805-77), Dresden; her nephew, Georg, King of Saxony (1832-1904), Dresden; his son, Johann Georg, Prince of Saxony (1869-1938), Dresden and Altshausen, near Ravensburg;{According to L. 971.} …; collection Wilhelmus Josephus Rudolphus Dreesmann (1885-1954), Amsterdam, by 1951;{Dreesmann 1942-1951, III (1951), p. 770.} his sale, Amsterdam (B.F.M. Mensing), 22 March 1960 sqq., no. 24, fl. 17,360, to the museum (L. 2228)

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.

• I.Q. van Regteren Altena, 'Het gelaat van de stad', in: Zeven EeuwenAmsterdam, III, Amsterdam z.j., p. 306-107, afb. 212
• De tekeningen van Jacob van Ruisdael, uit: Oud Holland, 94, 1980, 2/3, pagina pp. 141-208 - p. 164, afb. 29, pp. 188-189, nr. 3(zie: http://www.jstor.org/stable/42711038) Herkomst.

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