Farm Building by a Road

between mid to late 17th century

Jacob Isaaksz van Ruisdael Dutch, 1628 or 1629-1682

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Title Farm Building by a Road

Artwork Date between mid to late 17th century

Artist Jacob Isaaksz van Ruisdael

Life Dates 1628 or 1629-1682

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Dutch

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Black chalk and gray wash on discolored laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 5/8 inches (18.1 × 24.4 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Fine Arts Associates

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 44.282

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Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left: [indecipherable] | [indecipherable] | Jacob Ruysdael Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, verso, lower left edge: Jacob Ruysdael fec | W. vk

Provenance

November 28, 1912, Boerner (Leipzig, Germany) no. 211 [as Jacob van Ruisdael]

William Booth (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Fine Arts Associates (New York, New York, USA)

1944-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Simon, K. E. in Ulrich Thieme and Feliz Becker. Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart 37 vols: Leipzig. 1907-50. vol. 29, p. 192. [as Cornelis Decker]

Bulletin of the DIA (1945): p. 54 (ill.). [as Jacob van Ruisdael]

Stampfle, Felice. "An Early Drawing by Jacob van Ruisdael. " The Art Quarterly 22, 2 (summer 1959): pp. 161-163. [as Jacob van Ruisdael]

Giltay, J. "De tekeningen van Jacob van Ruisdael." Oud-Holland, 94, 2-3 (1980): pp. 141-208, no. 87. [as not Ruisdael]

Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, pp. 40-41, no. 18 (ill.).

Slive, Seymour. Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings. New Haven, 2001, p. 678, no. dubD14 (ill.) [as not Ruisdael].

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circle of Jacob Isaaksz van Ruisdael, Farm Building by a Road, between mid to late 17th century, black chalk and gray wash on discolored laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Fine Arts Associates, 44.282.