Property from the Collection of J.E. Safra
Ships on ♑the Boven-Merwede with Gorinchem in the Distance
Auction Closed
February 1, 04:16 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of J.E. Safra
Salomon Van Ruysdael
Naarden 1600 or 1603 - 1670 Haarlem
Ships on the Boven-Merwede with Gorinchem in the Distance
signed on the gunwale of the foreground vessel: SVR
dated on the leeboard of same vessel: 1659
oil on panel
panel: 16 ½ by 14 ⅝ in.; 41.9 by 37.1 cm.
framed: 22 by 20 in.; 55.9 by 50.8 cm.
M. Laurent-Richard, Neuilly;
His salไe, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 23-25 May 1878, lot 108, for 4,950 francs🦂;
Count Paul Demidoff (1839-1885), Villa dꦿi San Donato, Florence;
His s𒈔ale o🔴n the premises, Pillet, Le Roy, Mannheim, 15-17 March 1880, lot 1106, for 6,100 lire;
Possibly J.F. Du Sart;
Possibly his estate sale, Brussels, J. & A. Le Roy, 26–28 June൲ 1884, lot 🐓129;
Comtesse de Labadye, Paris;
With François Kleinberger, Paris, 1903;
Jonckheer Ch. van de Poll, Haarlem, by 1915;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam,ꦕ Sotheby Mak van Waay, 7 November 1978, lot 92, fo♍r 740,000 guilders;
British Rail Pension Fun🅷d, London,🧜 probably by 1981;
By whom ༒sold, London, Sotheby’s, 5 July 1995, lot 32;
Where acquired by Robert Noortman, London;
From whom acquired 𝔍by Michel🍸 David-Weill (1932-2022), New York and Paris;
With Robert Noortman, London;
Fro𓆏m whom acquired by the present collector, aft𝓡er 2004.
G.D. Gratama, "Tentoonstelling van Oude kunst uit het bezit van bewoners van Haarlem en omstreken," in Onze Kunst 28 (1915), reproduced p. 77;
W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael꧋, Berlin 1975, p. 77, cat. no. 57 (as signed but not dated);
W. Liedtke, Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. II, 🌟New Haven an🐲d London 2007, p. 809 note 11, under cat. no. 185 (with incorrect date of 1650).
London, Geffrye Museum, long-t🐓erm loan, 1981 - 1995.