Umkreis - Weite Flußlandschaft mit Personenstaffage. Ca. 1660/70s.
Oil on canvas.
Barely legible inscribed "R.." lower right. 55 x 67,5 cm (21,6 x 26,5 in).

We are grateful to Ellis Dullaart, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Dokumentatie, The Hague, for her kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: Presumably auction of collection Gerard Hoet, The Hague, 1760, lot 123, sold for 90 guilders to Pieter Yves.
Auction of collection Peacock, London (Foster), 28/29 February, 1844, lot 84, sold for £140,14 to a Mr. Smith, who then sold it for £200 to R. White of Edinburgh.
Auction of collection R. White of Edinburgh, London 1861, sold for £120,15 to Mr. Smith.
Auction of collection Baron Etienne Martin de Beurnonville, Paris (Drouot), 9 May, 1881, lot 445 (sold for 7.350 Franc).
Auction of collection L. Tabourier, Paris (Drouot), 20 June 1898, lot 184.
Auction Paris (Nouveau Drouot), 20 November, 1987, lot 14.
Private collection Northern Germany.

LITERATURE: Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten Holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, 1907-1928, Bvol 4 (1911), no. 589.
Jakob Rosenberg, Jacob van Ruidael, Berlin 1928, no. 360 (with copy pf text by Hofstede de Groot).
Seymour Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael. A complete catalogue of the paintings, drawings and etchings, New Haven 2011, no. 407.

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