Salomon van Ruysdael
Drawing the Eel
1650s74.9 x 106 cm
Oil on wood
Signed and dated lower center: SvR (vR in monogram) / 165[ ]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, 1871
Literature
Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 189
Literature
Esmée Quodbach (ed.), Holland's Golden Age in America, University Park, Pennsylvania, 2014, fig. 39
Provenance
Johan van der Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht, until 1785
his sale, Dordrecht, 22ff. August 1785, nr. 350, to Reynst
sale, J. Dintl and others, Vienna, 23 November 1869, nr. 141, bought in
with Léon Gauchez, Paris
William T. Blodgett, Paris, from 1870, sold half share to Johnston
William T. Blodgett, Paris, and John Taylor Johnston, New York, 1870–71, sold to MMA
Other works by Salomon van Ruysdael
Ferry near Gorinchem
1646
1646
Fishing Boats on a River
early 1660s
early 1660s
River Landscape near Arnhem
River landscape with fishermen
View of Rhenen at Sunset
1660
1660