Salomon van Ruysdael

By whom sold, Vienna, 20 December 1872, lot 145, for 2,600 Florins;

Geheimrat Dr. E. Hölscher, Mülheim am Rhein, by 1916;

His sale, Berlin, Lepke, 5 December 1916, lot 34, for 20,000 Reichsmark;

Michiel Onnes van Nijenrode, Castle Nijenrode;

His sale, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 4 July 1933, lot 29, for 4,600 Guilders to Goudstikker;

With Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam (his label on the reverse of the panel);

Looted by the Nazis in Amsterdam, July 1940;

Hermann Göring, Carinhall and Berchtesgaden (RM-Number 342);

Transferred by the Allied Fores from Berchtesgaden to the Central Collecting Point, Munich, 27 July 1945 (Mü-Number 5415);

Repatriated to The Netherlands on 20 October 1945;

Where transferred to the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit (SNK);

Mossel sale, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 11 March 1952, lot 747 (consigned by the above, Archief SNK 2.08.42, inv. nr. 876);

Anonymous sale (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), London, Christie’s, 1 April 1960, lot 74, for 15,000 guineas to Speelman;

With Edward Speelman, London;

Jocelyn Stevens, Esq.,

By whom sold, London, Christie’s, 2 July 1976, lot 73;

With Richard Green, London, October 1976;

Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 13–19 November 1979;

Anonymous sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 16 November 1983, withdrawn by the Exekutionsgericht, Vienna;

Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 11 December 1985, where presumably acquired by the father of the previous owners;

Thence by descent;

Restituted to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker, November 2022.

J. Goudstikker, Tentoonstelling van werken door Salomon van Ruysdael, exh. cat., Amsterdam 1936, p. 17, no. 24, reproduced facing p. 11 (as dated 1643); 

J. Goudstikker, De geschiedenis van het Kasteel "Nyenrode" en de bewoners daarven: benevens Kort Overzicht van de daar aanwezige Kunstwerken, Amsterdam (undated) 1936, reproduced opposite p. 27;

W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, Berlin 1975, p. 133, no. 410;

P.C. Sutton, Reclaimed. Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker, exh. cat., New Haven and London 2008, p. 174, under no. 21.

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