Landscape with a Watermill, ca. 1680

  • Jacob Isaaksz van Ruisdael, Dutch, 1628 or 1629-1682

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 16 3/4 × 24 1/4 inches (42.5 × 61.6 cm)
  • 26 1/8 × 33 3/8 × 3 3/8 inches (66.4 × 84.8 × 8.6 cm)

Gift of Sally Butzel Lewis (Mrs. Leonard T. Lewis) in memory of Leo M. and Carolyn H. Butzel

F82.94

On View

  • Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South

Department

European Painting

Signed, at lower right: JvRuisdael (JvR conjoined)

Sir S.F. Hayes Bt (Ireland)

Rudolf Peltzer (Cologne, Germany)

May 26-27, 1914, sold at auction Peltzer [Fr. Muller] (Amsterdam, Netherlands) lot 344

1925, Gallery Paul Bottenwieser (Berlin, Germany)

1925, acquired by Leo Butzel

by inheritance to his daughter Sally Butzel Lewis[Mrs. Leonard T. Lewis] 1982-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Rosenberg, J. Jacob van Ruisdael. Berlin, 1928, p. 78, no. 96. Ninth Loan Exhibition of Dutch Genre and Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1929, p. xvi, cat. 57. Loan Exhibition of Dutch Landscape Painting. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1939, cat. 28. Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 61, no. 3 (1983): pp. 14, 20 (fig. 14). Slive, S. Jacob van Ruisdael A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings and Etchings. New Haven and London, 2001, p. 134, cat. 114 (ill.). Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 208-209. Slive, Seymour. Jacob Van Ruisdael: Windmills and Water Mills. Los Angeles, 2011, p. 96, 97 (ill.) (fig. 69.) [acc. no. is listed incorrectly as F28.94.]

Jacob Isaaksz van Ruisdael, Landscape with a Watermill, ca. 1680, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Sally Butzel Lewis (Mrs. Leonard T. Lewis) in memory of Leo M. and Carolyn H. Butzel, F82.94.