A River Scene

1658

Meindert Hobbema Dutch, 1638-1709

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Title A River Scene

Artwork Date 1658

Artist Meindert Hobbema

Life Dates 1638-1709

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 oak panel

Dimensions Unframed: 20 3/4 × 26 7/8 inches (52.7 × 68.3 cm) Framed: 29 1/2 × 35 5/8 × 3 1/4 inches (74.9 × 90.5 × 8.3 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of James E. Scripps

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. 89.38

Markings

Signed Signed and dated, lower left: M HOBBEMA 1658 [M and H joined]

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Provenance

Collection T.J. Ireland (possibly Ousden Hall, Suffolk, England)

January 26, 1889, (Christie's, London, England) sale, lot 133 [as Jan van Goyen]

1889, James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, p. 27.

"The Scripps Old Masters," The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152, p. 150 [as by Myndert Hobbema].

Detroit Museum of Art, Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, p. 36, no. 47.

Hofstede de Groot, C. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 4. London, 1912, no. 255.

Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalofue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 52, no. 43 (ill.).

Valentiner, W.R. "Travel Notes." Bulletin of the DIA 10, 1 (1928): pp. 6-12 (ill.).

Rosenberg, J. Jacob van Ruisdael. Berlin, 1928, p. 37 (fig. 72, pl. XLVI). [dated as 1658]

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 99 (ill.).

Broulheit, G. Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709). Paris, 1938, pp. 31-32, 416, no. 286 (ill.). [dated as 1658]

"Artists Unappreciated in their Time." Exh. cat., Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, 1939 (ill.).

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings, 1944, p. 61, no. 99.

Stechow, W. "The Early Years of Hobbema." Art Quarterly 22 (1959): pp. 3-18 (fig. 1).

Youthful Works by Great Artists. Exh. cat., Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. Oberlin, Ohio in Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 20, 3 (1963): p. 175, no. 16.

Stechow, W. Dutch Landscape Paintings of the Seventeeth Century. London, 1966, pp. 60, 76.

Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 108-109.

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