About the Artwork
Landscape with a Watermill
ca. 1680
Jacob Isaaksz van Ruisdael
1628 or 1629-1682
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 16 3/4 × 24 1/4 inches (42.5 × 61.6 cm) Framed: 26 1/8 × 33 3/8 × 3 3/8 inches (66.4 × 84.8 × 8.6 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Sally Butzel Lewis (Mrs. Leonard T. Lewis) in memory of Leo M. and Carolyn H. Butzel
F82.94
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, at lower right: JvRuisdael (JvR conjoined)
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Provenance
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)
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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.]
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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.
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