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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1966.32
People
Jacob van Ruisdael, Dutch (Haarlem 1628/29 - 1682 Amsterdam)
Title
Wooded Landscape with an Old Oak
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1650-1653
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228325

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on cradled panel
Dimensions
47.4 x 63.6 cm (18 11/16 x 25 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: back of frame, blue ink, printed: [ ]HENUE / [ ]ENCH PACKER
  • label: back of frame, ink, handwritten: S[ ]OYER / 25 MONMOUTH STREET / SHAFTESBURY AVENUE / LONDON, W.C. 2
  • label: back of frame, black ink, typewritten: 375.49
  • label: back of frame, black ink, handwritten: 9438 / Rosenberg no. 275 p. 89 / Illustration 51 p. xxxi / text p. 28 / date 1650-1655 p. 20

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Paul Bottenwieser, Berlin by 1925.] A. (Adolf?) Schoyer, Berlin (by 1928). [Frederick Mont (Mondschein), New York, (by 1947) sold]; to Edwin H. Abbot Jr., Cambridge (1947-1966) gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1966.

Notes:

Date for Schoyer ownership comes from Rosenberg. Schoyer left Berlin for London and returned after the war. The painting is labelled with Schoyer's name and a London address, suggesting that it was sent to him there. Abbot's purchase of the painting was facilitated by Thomas Donlon.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Edwin H. Abbot
Accession Year
1966
Object Number
1966.32
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Paula DeCristofaro and James Swope, "Technical Analysis of the Materials and Methods of Jacob van Ruisdael" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, July 1982), Unpublished, pp. 1-31 passim
  • Thomas Bredsdorff, Et landskab af naturen malet: En tese om malernes natur, Kritik (Copenhagen, 1987), vol. 20, no. 79/80, pp. 56-70, pp. 58-60, repr. p. 58
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)

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