Path Leading to Farms by a Wooded Brook

ca. 1645

Isaack van Ruisdael Dutch, 1599-1677

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Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South Wing

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Title Path Leading to Farms by a Wooded Brook

Artwork Date ca. 1645

Artist Isaack van Ruisdael

Life Dates 1599-1677

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 panel

Dimensions Unframed: 22 1/4 × 31 1/4 inches (56.5 × 79.4 cm) Framed: 32 3/8 × 43 × 4 1/2 inches (82.2 × 109.2 × 11.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mrs. Joseph B. Schlotman

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. F73.12

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Signed Signed: M. Hobbema [removed in 1995] Signed, underneath previous signature: I v R [original monogram]

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Provenance

1846, Baron M. Delessert (Paris, France)

March 15, 1869, sold at auction Dellessert [François] (Paris, France) lot 34 [for 10,200 francs]

G. Poiret (Paris, France)

until August 2, 1905, purchased and sold by (F. Kleinberger Galleries, Paris, France and New York, New York, USA) stock #7045

October 1913, purchased by Miss Stella D. Ford [later Mrs. Joseph B. Schlotman] (Detroit, Michigan, USA) [for $30,000 or $35,000]

1973-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Hofstede de Groot, C. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 4. London, 1912, p. 442, no. 280. [as Hobbema.]

Loan Exhibition of Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, January 9, 1925 - January 25, 1925, cat. 10. [as Meindert Hobbema.]

Simon, K.E. "Isaack van Ruisdael." Burlington Magazine 67 (1935): pp. 7-23, esp. pp. 7-8, 14, pl. Ic. [as Isaack van Ruisdael.]

Loan Exhibition of Dutch Landscape Painting. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1939, cat. 16. [as Hobbema.]

Jacob van Ruisdael. Exh. cat., Mauritshuis and Fogg Art Museum. The Hague and Cambridge, MA, 1981, p. 239, cited under cat. 96. [as neither Hobbema nor Isaack van Ruisdael.]

Walford, E. John. Jacob van Ruisdael and the Perception of Landscape. New Haven and London, 1991, p. 53. [as Isaack van Ruisdael.]

Keyes, G.S. "Isaack van Ruisdael: further Reconsiderations." Ex Fumo Lucem Baroque Studies in Honour of Klára Garas. Budapest, 1999, vol. 1, pp. 155-166, esp. pp. 155, 157, 159 (fig. 1).

Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 192-193.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Isaack van Ruisdael, Path Leading to Farms by a Wooded Brook, ca. 1645, oil on panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Joseph B. Schlotman, F73.12.