Jacob van Ruisdael
Landscape with the Ruins of Egmond Castle at Egmond aan den hoef
1650-5395 x 125 cm
oil on canvas
Inscribed in lower right: JVR (in ligature)
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Potter Palmer Collection
Provenance
Baron de Beurnonville, sale Paris, Hotel Drouot, 9 May 1881, nr. 451 (10,000 Francs, erroneously called Ruins of the Castle of Brederode)
G. von Ráth, Budapest
P & D. Colnaghi, London, by 1906
sold by Colnaghi to Oscar Huldschinsky (died 1930), Berlin, by 1908
offered for sale, Cassirer, Berlin, 10-11 May 1928, nr. 29, bought in at 61,000 marks
Galerie Goudstikker, Rotterdam and Amsterdam by December 1928 to at least February 1929
Kurt Walter Bachstitz, Berlin, by 1929
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
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Other works by Jacob van Ruisdael
Winter landscape
c. 1670-75
c. 1670-75
Landscape with a Half-Timbered House and a Blasted Tree
1653
1653
Jewish Cemetery
c. 1654-55
c. 1654-55
Le Coup de Soleil
1670s
1670s
Landscape with a Village in the Distance
1646
1646