Jacob van Ruisdael
Waterfall in a Hilly Wooded Landscape
c. 1655105.5 x 123.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed, lower right: J v Ruisdael (JvR in ligature)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Widener Collection
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Slive 295
Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 339-343
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 384
Literature
Anna Tummers, The eye of the connoisseur, Amsterdam, 2011, fig. 46 (detail)
Provenance
Probably owned by Francis Nathaniel, 2nd marquess Conyngham (1797-1876), Mount Charles, County Donegal, and Minster Abbey, Kent
Sir Hugh Hume-Campbell, 7th bart. (1812-1894), Marchmont House, Borders, Scotland, by 1857
his estate sale, Christie, Manson, & Woods, London, 16 June 1894, nr. 48
with P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, sold 1894 to Widener
Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
gift 1942 to NGA
Other works by Jacob van Ruisdael
Winter Landscape
1660/65
1660/65
Road in the Dunes
c. 1648/49
c. 1648/49
Wheat Fields
c. 1670
c. 1670
Forest landscape with Waterfall
c. 1655
c. 1655
Brick Bridge with a Sluice
1647
1647