Lot 28: Jacob van Ruisdael (Haarlem 1628/29-1682 Amsterdam) A woody river landscape with shepherds and their flock oil on canvas 19 7/8 x 23 7/8 in. (50.6 x 60.8 cm.)

Jacob van Ruisdael (Haarlem 1628/29-1682 Amsterdam)
A woody river landscape with shepherds and their flock
signed 'Ruisdael' (lower left)
oil on canvas
19 7/8 x 23 7/8 in. (50.6 x 60.8 cm.)

Pieter van Winter (1745-1807), Amsterdam, and by descent to his daughter,
Anna Louisa (1793-1877), who married in 1815 Willem van Loon (1790-1847), Amsterdam; sold en bloc in 1877/78 by her heirs, with 80 paintings from the van Loon collection to the Rothschilds.
Baron Lionel de Rothschild (1808-1879), Gunnersbury, Middlesex, and by descent to his son,
Sir Nathaniel, later 1st Baron Rothschild (1840-1915), and by inheritance to his brother,
Baron Leopold de Rothschild (1845-1917), and by descent to his son,
Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942), and acquired from his executors by the following in 1946,
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London.
R.P. Silcock.
Charles Russell; (†) Sotheby's, London, 7 December 1960, lot 2 (£8,500 to the following).
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London.
Private collection, Yorkshire, after 1962, until 1992.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 15 April 1992, lot 24 (£198,000).
with Noortman, London and Maastricht.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Sotheby's, London, 6 July 2000, lot 59 (£388,500), when acquired.