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    Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond
    Jacob van Ruisdael. Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond, 1650–55. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001113

    Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond

    by Jacob van Ruisdael

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    Inscriptions

    Inscribed lower right in ligature: JVR

    Provenance

    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.

    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.

    Publications

    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. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961) pp. 408-9, ill. p. 193. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London and New York, 1970) pp. 260, 285 (ill.). Yuri Kouznetsov, “Sur le symbolisme dans les paysages du Jacob van Ruisdael,” Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie 14 (1973), p. 35. The Art Institute of Chicago. 100 Masterpieces. Chicago, 1978, no. 23 (1983 reprint, pl. 23). John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York, 1979), p. 250. J. Ashbery, “Master of Land and Sky,” Newsweek (February 15, 1982), p. 7. Peter Ashton, Alice I. Davies and Seymour Slive, “Jacob van Ruisdael’s Trees,” Arnoldia 42, no. 1 (1982), p. 19, pl. 19. Robert Hughes, “Opening a Path to Natural Vision. A unique retrospective of Ruisdael at the Fogg,” Time (March 29, 1982) p. 60, ill. Carter Ratcliff, “Ruisdael’s Northern Prospects,” Art in America 70, no. 4 (April 1982) p. 96 (ill.). Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Grand Rapids, Michigan1986) pp. 49, 51, fig. 68. George Keyes, review of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Landscape in Perspective: Drawings by Rembrandt and his Contemporaries, in Master Drawings 27 (1989), pp. 168–9. Walter Liedtke, “The Collectors and Their Ideals,” in Ben Broos, Great Dutch Paintings from America, exh. cat. (The Hague, Mauritshuis, 1990), p. 35. Seymour Silve, "Additions to Jacob van Ruisdael," Burlington Magazine 133 (1991), p. 598, n. 2. Seymour Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings (New Haven, 2001) pp. 44-5, no. 29.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
    Date
    1650–55
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    98 × 130 cm (38 7/8 × 51 3/8 in.); Framed: 101 × 131.5 × 8.6 cm (39 3/4 × 51 3/4 × 3 3/8 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    17th Century
    Place
    Holland
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Potter Palmer Collection
    Accession no.
    1947.475

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