Artist |
Salomon van Ruysdael
(circa 1600/1603–1670) |
Alternative names |
Salomon de Gooyer, Salomon Jacobsz. de Gooyer, Salomon de Goyer, Salomon Jacobsz. de Goyer, Salomon Jacobsz. van Ruijsdael, Salomon van Ruijsdael, Salomon Jacobsz. van Ruisdael, Salomon van Ruisdael, Salomon van Rayesdael, Salomon Jacobsz. van Ruyesdael, Salomon van Ruyesdael, Salomon Jacobsz. van Ruysdael, Salomon Jacobs van Ruysdael, Monogrammist SVR |
Description |
Dutch painter and drawer |
Date of birth/death |
between circa 1600 and circa 1603 date QS:P,+1600-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1600-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1603-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
3 November 1670 (buried) |
Location of birth/death |
Naarden |
Haarlem |
Work period |
from 1623 until 1670 date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1623-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1670-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
Work location |
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Authority file |
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artist QS:P170,Q247005 |
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Object history |
(Possibly sale, London, England, March 3, 1908, lot 122); Fischoff. [1] (Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, France by 1911). [2] Edward Rathbone Bacon [1846- 1915], New York, New York and Netherdale House, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, before 1915; by descent to his sister-in-law, Mrs. Virginia Purdy Bacon, New York, New York, 1915 through 1919; by descent to the Bacon heirs, 1919 through 1923;[3] (Bacon sale, through Christie's, London, England, July 13, 1923, lot 29);[4] (Arthur Tooth and Sons, Ltd., London, England). Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Germany. Dr. P. Kempner, Berlin, Germany, before 1925 and after 1938. [5] (Pinakos, Inc. (Rudolf Heinemann), New York, New York, by 1944); (M. Knoedler and Co., Inc., New York, New York, by 1944 through 1945; [6] purchased by MIA in 1945.
[1] According to Art Sales III, p. 331, Fischoff purchased the painting for 504 pounds. It has not been proven that this work is our painting. A second, smaller version exists which may conflict with provenance and exhibition history.
[2] The work is reproduced in "One Hundred Paintings by Old Masters: The Sedelmeyer Gallery," Paris, France, 1911, series 11, pp. 42-43, no. 36. There is a Galerie Sedelmeyer wax seal on the stretcher brace of the painting. The work was also referred to in a 1925 Sedelmeyer exhibition.
[3] The painting is listed as no. 140 in Townsend and Howard, "Memorial Catalogue of Paintings by Old and Modern Masters, collected by Edward R. Bacon," privately printed in 1919, p. 117, no. 140.
[4] Copy of auction catalogue in curatorial file annotated with '680' and 'Tooth'.
[5] Kempner was a partner in the firm of Bankhaus Mendelssohn & Co. This fact is also stated on the invoice from Knoedler.
[6] According to the Getty Provenance Index, the work was owned jointly between Pinakos, Inc. and Knoedler's. Knoedler stock number A-2773. |