Hilly Landscape with a Watermill

ca. 1670

Jacob Isaaksz van Ruisdael Dutch, 1628 or 1629-1682

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Title Hilly Landscape with a Watermill

Artwork Date ca. 1670

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 Oil on canvas

Dimensions Overall: 42 × 52 1/2 inches (106.7 × 133.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Fisher

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. 49.532

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Signed Signed, lower right, on rock: J v Ruisdael [J v R in ligature]

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Provenance

1890-1891, Lord Haldon (Haldon House, Exeter, England)

February 28, 1891, sold by (Christie's, London, England) auction Lord Haldon, lot 32

1898, Galerie Sedelmeyer (Paris, France)

1910, Count Palffy (Paris, France)

Richard Larsen (Brussels, Belgium)

Howard Young Galleries (New York, New York, USA)

Mr. & Mrs. Alfred J. Fisher (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1949-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Hofstede de Groot, C. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 4. London, 1912, p. 53, no. 154.

Fifth Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1927, p. 30, cat. 48.

Rosenberg, J. Jacob van Ruisdael. Berlin, 1928, p. 78, no. 105.

Frankfurter, A.M. "Masterpieces of Landscape Painting in American Collections." Fine Arts 18 (1931): p. 28.

Richardson, E.P. "Ruisdael's Landscape with a Water Mill." Bulletin of the DIA 29, no. 4 (1949-50): pp. 82-85 (ill.).

Richardson, E.P. "Landscape With a Windmill by Jacob van Ruisdael." Art Quarterly 13, no. 2 (1950): pp. 173-176, repr, p. 172. [as painted in 1661 or shortly thereafter.]

Pictures on Exhibit 12, no. 7 (April 1950): p. 48.

Slive, Seymour. Jacob Van Ruisdael: Windmills and Water Mills. Los Angeles, 2011, p. 91, 92 (ill.) (fig. 65).

Pallas 14, no. 8 (May 1950): p. 86.

Opening Exhibition. Exh. cat., Birmingham Museum of Art. Birmingham, 1951, pp. 15-16.

Old Masters from American Collections. Exh. cat., Newark Museum. Newark, 1955, cat. 15.

Slive, S. "Additions to Jacob van Ruysdael." Burlington Magazine 133 (1991): pp. 598-606, note 17.

Slive, S. Jacob van Ruisdael, A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings and Etchings. New Haven and London, 2001, p. 134, cat. 113 (ill.).

Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 206-207.

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Jacob Isaaksz van Ruisdael, Hilly Landscape with a Watermill, ca. 1670, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Fisher, 49.532.