Meindert Hobbema
The Watermill with the Great Red Roof
1662/6581.3 x 110 cm
Oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan
Literature
Collection catalogues
Selected by James Cuno, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; New Haven and London, 2009, p. 33
Literature
Wolfgang Stechow, Dutch landscape painting of the seventeenth century, London, 1966, fig. 153
Provenance
Possibly John Ellis, London 1755
possibly Lord Mount Temple
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
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Other works by Meindert Hobbema
A View on a High Road
1665
1665
A Farm in the Sunlight
1668
1668
The entrance to the forest
c. 1663-65
c. 1663-65
Entrance to a Village
The Haarlemmersluis and the Haringpakkerstoren in Amsterdam
c. 1660-61
c. 1660-61