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View of the Plain of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds
Jacob Isaacksz. van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628 or 1629–1682)
about 1660–63
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
36.2 x 45 cm (14 1/4 x 17 3/4 in.)
Framed: 61 x 68.6 cm (24 x 27 in.)
Framed: 61 x 68.6 cm (24 x 27 in.)
Credit Line
Promised gift of Susan and Matthew Weatherbie, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art
Accession NumberL-R 80.2021
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
ProvenanceBy 1842, George Percy (b. 1778 - d. 1867), 2nd Earl of Beverley, London [see note 1]; June 7, 1851, Earl of Beverley collection sold en bloc to John M. and Samuel M. Smith (dealers), London [see note 2]; 1851, probably sold by Smith to Thomas Baring (b. 1799 - d. 1873), London [see note 3]; to his nephew, Thomas George Baring (b. 1826 - d. 1904), 1st Earl of Northbrook, London; by descent within the family; February 2002, sold by Lord Northbrook, through Simon C. Dickinson Ltd., London, to Susan and Matthew Weatherbie, Boston.
NOTES:
[1] According to John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters (London, 1842), vol. 7, p. 683, no. 7.
[2] According to Seymour Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings and Etchings (London, 2001), p. 75, no. 46.
[3] W.H. James Weale, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures Belonging to the Earl of Northbrook (London, 1889), p. 66, cat. no. 93. The catalogue includes 17 paintings from the Earl of Beverley collection, all purchased in 1851.
NOTES:
[1] According to John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters (London, 1842), vol. 7, p. 683, no. 7.
[2] According to Seymour Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings and Etchings (London, 2001), p. 75, no. 46.
[3] W.H. James Weale, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures Belonging to the Earl of Northbrook (London, 1889), p. 66, cat. no. 93. The catalogue includes 17 paintings from the Earl of Beverley collection, all purchased in 1851.