Wooded Landscape with Waterfall
Artist
Jacob van Ruisdael
Dutch, 1628/1629–1682
Datecirca 1665–1670
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions40 15/16 x 56 7/16 in. (104 x 143.3 cm)
Frame: 50 1/2 x 67 in. (128.3 x 170.2 cm)
Frame: 50 1/2 x 67 in. (128.3 x 170.2 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.56
On View
Not on view[1] Sedelmeyer’s purchase according to Broos 1990, Great Dutch Paintings from America. Ownership has yet to be confirmed.
[2] The present painting probably left the Wesendonk collection before 1914. It does not appear in the 1914 catalogue of the Wesendonck painting collection loaned c. 1906 by his son Karl von Wesendonck to the Provinzial-Museum Bonn (later LandesMuseum Bonn). In 1925 the city of Bonn bought this collection, later selling a few of the paintings. This painting does not appear in the sale via Rudolph Lepke’s in Berlin, October 27 1925 or that via Lempertz in Cologne, November 27, 1935. There is an 1888 catalogue of the Wesendonck collection that has not yet been checked.
Published References“Catalogus van een fraaije versameling schilderyen…Al het werken verkogt zal worden door de Makelaars: Philippus van der Schley, Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, J. Cz. en Jan Yver,” (auction catalogue) (Amsterdam, Arnoldus Dankmeyer en Zoon, November 14, 1791), lot 125, as Een hoog Bergachtig Gezigt in Noorwegen, by J. Ruisdaal.
“Catalogue des tableaux anciens de toutes les écoles: composant la très importante collection de M. le Baron de Beurnonville” (auction catalogue) (Paris: Charles Pillet, May 9–13, 1881), 283, no. 458, as Site norvégien.
“Catalogue de Tableaux Anciens et Modernes…dont la vente aura lieu par
suite du Décès de M. Louis Viardot” (auction catalogue) (Paris: Hôtel Drouot, April 30, 1884), 12, lot 11, as Site norvégien.
H. Mireur, Dictionnaire des Ventes d'Art (Paris: Maison d'Éditions d'Œuvres Artistiques, 1912), tome 6, 375, listed in two sales: De Beurnonville 1881 and Viardot 1884.
W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 66, illus. (b-w).
Masters of Landscape: East and West (exhibition catalogue) (Utica: Widtman Press for the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1963), cat. no. 33, illus.
John Smith, C. Hofstede de Groot, and Edward G. Hawke, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, (Teaneck : Somerset House; Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1976), Vol. 4, 104 no. 305d.
With a Little Help from Our Friends (exhibition catalogue) (Jackson, MI: Mississippi Museum of Art, 1978), cat. no. 58, illus.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 109.
Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), discussed 12, illus. (b-w) 13, fig. 13.
B[en] P. J. Broos, Great Dutch Paintings from America (exhibition catalogue) (Zwolle: Waanders Publishers for the Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1990), cat. no. 55.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 103 (as Spruce Trees at a Waterfall).
Wilma Dykeman, "On Entering Jacob van Ruisdael's Wooded Landscape with Waterfall," in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 26-28, illus. (color) 26.
Dennis Weller, entry for Wooded Landscape with Waterfall, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 107, illus. (color).
Seymour Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001), cat. no. 264, illus. (color).
Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 39, illus. (color) 182.
Dennis P. Weller, entry for Wooded Landscape with Waterfall, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 228, illus. (color) 229.
John C. Francis, entry for The Athenaeum Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama. (London: The Office, 20, Wellington Street, Stand, W.C., 1884), ed. Jan-Jun, pg. 606.
"Cabinet de la Curiosite," entry for Journal des Beaux-Arts et de la Litterature (1881), pg. 102.
Exhibition HistoryBonn, Bonn Museum [date unknown].
Utica, NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, "Masters of Landscape: East and West," September 15-October 13, 1963; Rochester, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, November 1-December 1, 1963, cat. no. 33, illus.
Jackson, MI, Mississippi Museum of Art, "With a Little Help from Our Friends," April 1-July 31, 1978, cat. no. 58, illus.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt," October 25, 1986-February 15, 1987, discussed 12, illus. (b-w) 13, fig. 13.
The Hague, Royal Picture Gallery 'Mauritshius', "Great Dutch Paintings from America," September 27, 1990-January 31, 1991; San Francisco, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, February 16-May 5, 1991, cat. no. 55.
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