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Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond
Jacob van Ruisdael · 1650–55
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly Collection of Jean-André Tardieu; sold, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, May 10-11, 1867, lot 51 as Les Ruines du Château de Brederode for 3,650 francs. Baron Etienne Martin de Beurnonville (1789-1876), château de la Chapelle, Labbeville, Val d'Oise, France; sale of his estate, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, May 9, 1881, lot 451 as Ruins of the Castle of Brederode; sold to Charles Sedelmeyer (1837-1925), Paris, for 10,000 francs [annotated sale cat., Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague; copy in curatorial object file]. György Ráth (1828-1905), Budapest, by 1892 until before 1905 [this and the following according to Frimmel 1892]. P & D. Colnaghi, London, by 1906; sold to Oscar Huldschinsky (died 1931), Berlin, by Jan. 1906 [Berlin 1906]; offered for sale, Paul Cassirer, Berlin, May 10-11, 1928, lot 29, bought in at 61,000 marks [according to Rosenberg 1928 and La Revue d'Art 1928]. Galerie Goudstikker, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, by Dec. 1928 to at least Feb. 1929 [Rotterdam and Amsterdam 1928]. Bachstitz Gallery, The Hague, by 1932 [this and the following according to email correspondence with Agnews, July 2004, in curatorial object file]; consigned to Agnews, London, Oct. 1932 [not part of the Von Auspitz collection, but included in the 1932 catalogue, no. 27]; returned to the Bachstitz Gallery, The Hague, Mar. 1933 until at least 1935 [inventory nos. G95 and Ru1356 in the Bachstitz Gallery archive at the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague; Bulletin of the Bachstitz Gallery 1935]. Paul Cassirer, Ltd., London, 1947, as agent for an anonymous family, with Otto Reichenheim, Canfield Gardens, London, as intermediary; sold to the Art Institute, 1947.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Berlin, Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Verein, Palais Redern, Ausstellung von Werken alter Kunst aus dem Privatbesitz der Mitglieder des Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Verein, 1906, no. 117, ill.
- Rotterdam, J. Goudstikker, Collection Goudstikker 36, 22 December 1928 - 6 January 1929; Amsterdam, 12 January - 28 February 1929, no. 67.
- London, Thomas Agnew and Sons, An Exhibition of the Von Auspitz Collection of Old Masters by courtesy of Herr Walter Bachstitz, (November-December 1932) p. 16, no. 27.
- The Hague, Mauritshuis, Jacob van Ruisdael, 1 October 1981 - 3 January 1982; Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 18 January 1982 - 11 April 1982, no. 19, p. 64-66.
- London, Philadelphia and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jacob van Ruidael, Master of Landscape, June 26–September 18, 2005; traveled to Philadelphia, Museum of Art, October 23, 2005–February 5, 2006; London, Royal Academy or Arts, February 25–June 4, 2006, no. 18.
Literature
Published references
- Theodor Frimmel, Kleine Galeriestudien (Bamberg, 1891/92), p. 261.
- Ruisdael: Masters in Art, vol. 8 (Boston, 1907): 83, listed only.
- Wilhelm Bode. Die Sammlung Oscar Huldschinsky (Berlin, 1908) no. 26.
- C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. IV (London, 1912) pp. 22-3, no. 51.
- Jakob Rosenberg, Jacob van Ruisdael (Berlin, 1928) pp. 20-1, 74, no. 34, pl. 18, fig. 31.
- Paul Cassirer and Hugo Helbing, Die Sammlung Oscar Huldschinsky (Berlin, 1928) p. 52, no. 29, pl. 25.
- “Die Sammlung Huldschinsky,” Pantheon 1 (1928) pp. 128, 130 (ill).
- P. Wescher, “Berlin,” Pantheon 1 (1928), p. 327.
- “Berlin. Collection Oscar Huldschinsky” La Revue d’Art 29 (July–December 1928), p. 95.
- Bulletin of the Bachstitz Gallery (The Hague, 1929) pp. 36-7.
- Axel L. Romdahl, “Barock, Kontrabarock och Akademism,” Tidskrift for Konstvetenskay 20 (1937) pp. 39-40, 44 (ill.).
- J. G. N. Reynaud, “De iconographie van het slot te Egmond,” Maandblad voor beeldende Kunst 17 (1940), pp. 339–41.
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