Lot 29: SALOMON VAN RUYSDAEL

NAARDEN 1600/3 - 1670 HAARLEM
A PANORAMIC VIEW OF RHENEN FROM THE BANKS OF THE RHINE TO THE WEST OF THE CITY, WITH THE CHURCH OF ST. CUNERA IN THE DISTANCE, AND A HORSE-DRAWN WAGON AND CATTLE IN THE FOREGROUND
signed and dated lower left: SvRvysDAEL /1659 (SvR in ligature)
oil on canvas
71.2 by 111.2 cm.; 28 by 43 3/4 in.

Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, Importants Tableaux Anciens, July - Sept 1912, no. 28 (as dated 1652);
The Hague, Het Landschap door Hollanders gezien, 16-20e eeuw, March - April 1922;
Copenhagen, Den Hollandske Udstiling i Kobenhaven, July - August 1922, no. 114 (both the above according to printed labels on the reverse);
The Hague, Pulchri Studio, Tentoonstelling Collectie Goudstikker, 4 -  30 November 1922, p. 21, no. 83;
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Balch Collection and Old Masters from Los Angeles Collections, assembled in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch, 26 March - 30 April 1944 (lent by Mr. Getty).

W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, Eine Einführung in seine Kunst. Mit kritischem Katalog der Gemälde, Berlin 1938, p. 92, no. 205 (as dated 1660);
K.E. Simon, 'Salomon van Ruysdael, Eine Einführung in seine Kunst. Mit kritischem Katalog der Gemälde, By W. Stechow', review in Burlington Magazine LXXXI, no. 446, May 1940, p. 168 (as dated 1659);
B.B. Fredericksen, Handbook of Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu 1965, p. 11;
B.B. Fredericksen, Catalogue of the Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu 1972, p. 88, no. 116;
W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael. Eine Einführung in seine Kunst. Mit kritischem Katalog der Gemälde, Berlin 1975, second, revised and extended edition, p. 99, no. 205 (as dated 1660);
The J. Paul Getty Museum Guidebook, 4th edition, Malibu 1978, p. 52;
C. Brown, Dutch Landscape. The Early Years, exhibition catalogue, London 1986, p. 158 (as dated 1660);
D. Jaffé, Summary Catalogue of European Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 1997, p. 114, reproduced (as dated 1660).

Thomas Schwencke, The Hague;
His sale, The Hague, Rietmulder, 6 October 1767, lot 42;
Hendrik Verschuuring, The Hague;
His sale, The Hague, Rietmulder, 17 September 1770, lot 156;
Albert Levy, London;
His sale, London, Christie's, 3 May 1884, lot 31, to Agnew;
With Thomas Agnew & Sons, London;
Possibly Alfred (Charles) de Rothschild, Austrian, by 1884;
F.C. Stoop, Byfleet, Surrey, 1912, by whom (anonymously) sold, London, Christie's, 12 July 1912, lot 86, to Muller, for 1,365 pounds;
With Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 1912;
A.W.M. Mensing (d. 1936), Amsterdam, probably from 1912 and upon his death in 1936 held in trust by the Estate until 1938;
Sold by the Estate of A.W.M. Mensing, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 15 November 1938, lot 94, to J. Paul Getty for 5.100 florins;
J. Paul Getty, Sutton Place, Surrey;
Donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1954 (inv. no. 54.PA.4);
Their sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 8 May 2007, lot 53, for €252,000.