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The Watermill with the Great Red Roof
Meindert Hobbema · c. 1665
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly John Ellis, London 1755 [according to Smith 1835]. Possibly Lord Mount Temple [Hofstede de Groot cites Durand Ruel as the source of this information]. Durand-Ruel, Paris, by 1890; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 1890, together with a group of Dutch and Flemish paintings, many from the Demidoff collection, using funds advanced by four trustees and reimbursed through the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan in 1903 [sale agreement in Art Institute Archives; in the case of 1894.1031, there is no evidence that it was in the Demidoff collection].
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Loan Exhibition of Paintings, 1902/1903, no. 70.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 66.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 93.
- New York World’s Fair, Masterpieces of Art, 1939, no. 193.
- New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dutch Painting. The Golden Age, An Exhibition of Dutch Pictures of the Seventeenth Century under the High Patronage of Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, 1954/1955, no. 42, traveled to Toledo Museum of Art,.
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Artist Looks at the Landscape, 1974, no cat.
- Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Masters of 17th-Century Dutch Landscape, October 2, 1987- January 3, 1988, cat. 46; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, February 3-May 1, 1988; Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 5-July 31, 1988.
- Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Die Entdeckung der Landscaft. Meisterwerke der niederländischen Kunst des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, 2005, no. 36.
Literature
Published references
- John Smith, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch and Flemish Painters, vol. 6, London, 1835, pp. 151-52, no. 105.
- “Rare Old Paintings. Works of Famous Dutch Masters at the Art Institute,”Chicago Post, November 7, 1890.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum, 1895, no. 164.
- Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and other Objects of Art in the Museum, 1901, p. 148, no. 16 ill.
- Frederick W. Morton, “Notable Art Works at Pittsburg,” Brush and Pencil 11, 3 (1902), pp. 182, 191 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and other Objects of Art in the Museum, 1904, pp. 153-4, no. 16, ill.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Important facts regarding The Art Institute of Chicago with reproductions of the Demidoff Masterpieces, Chicago, 1905, p. 9, ill. p. 16.
- Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects, 1907, pp. 164-5, no. 16, ill.
- Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century Based on the Work of John Smith, trans. Edward G. Hawke, vol. 4, London, 1912, p. 377, no. 71.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Handbook of Paintings, Chicago, 1920, p. 19, no. 16.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, Chicago, 1925, pp. 19 ill, 140, no. 16.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, Chicago, 1932, pp. 25 ill., 157.
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