Jacob van Ruisdael
Waterfall in a Hilly Landscape
63.5 x 53.5 cmOil on canvas
Signed lower left
Formerly Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Provenance
Most probably Raidt collection, Vienna, by 1793
Sapiehów collection (Prince E. Spiéga), Dereczyn, Poland
most probably confiscated and removed to Russia at the time of the November Insurrection of 1830
given to the Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, by Czar Nicholas II in 1832
Hermitage, St. Petersburg
returned to Poland from the Hermitage in 1928
perhaps lost when the Royal Castle (Zamek Królewski), Warsaw was destroyed by German incendiary bombs 17 September 1939 or looted after the castle's destruction
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Other works by Jacob van Ruisdael
The Jetty
c. 1660
c. 1660
Winter Landscape
Waterfall with a Distant View of a Town
Wooded Landscape with a Rear View of a Water Mill with a Man in a Punt
Grainfield beside a Road