National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: River Landscape with Ferry
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Inscription

on the ferry below the white horse: Salomon v. Ruysdael. 1649

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Provenance

Possibly Hugh Edward Wilbraham [1857-1930], Delamere House, near Northwich, Cheshire; by inheritance to his son, George Hugh de Vernon Wilbraham [1890-1962], Delamere House; (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 18 July 1930, no. 33); (Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam);[1] restituted 6 February 2006 to his daughter-in-law, Marei von Saher, Greenwich, Connecticut; purchased 5 November 2007 through (Christie's, New York) by NGA.

[1] The dealer Jacques Goudstikker fled Amsterdam with his wife and son in May 1940, and died in an accident on board the ship on which he left. He left behind most of his gallery's stock of paintings, including the Ruysdael, and with the rest of the Goudstikker paintings, it was confiscated by the Nazis later the same year and delivered to Hermann Göring; see Rapport inzake de Kunsthandel v.h J Goudstikker NV in oprichtung per 13 September 1940, Beilage III, Staat van Schilderijen, gekocht M Goering van de "oude" Goudstikker, Access no. 1341, inv. 103, Gemeentearchief, Amsterdam. The painting was recovered by the Allies at the end of World War II and held at the Munich Central Collecting Point (where it was no. 5324), before being returned to the Netherlands in 1948. In the Netherlands, ownership was transferred among several museums, during which time the painting maintained the identifying inventory number NK 2347: Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit, The Hague, in 1948; Dienst voor's Rijks Verspreide Kunstvoorwerpen, The Hague, 1948-1975; Dienst Verspreide Rijkscollecties, The Hague, 1975-1985; Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, The Hague, 1985-1997; and Instituut Collectie Nederland, Amsterdam, in 1997. Physical custody of the painting was transferred in 1960 to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, where it had the inventory number SK A 3983 and where it remained until 2006. In 2005, the Dutch Advisory Committee on the Assessment of Restitution Applications for Items of Cultural Value and the Second World War recommended in favor of the Goudstikker family's claim for the return of this and other paintings that had been confiscated in 1940. The surviving heirs were Marei von Saher, the widow of Goudstikker's son, Edward, and her daughters, Charlène and Chantel, who received the restituted paintings in early 2006.

Exhibition History

1930
Nouvelles Acquisitions de la Collection Goudstikker, Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam; Kunstkring, Rotterdam, 1930-1931, no. 65, repro.
1935
Cinq siècles d'art, Exposition Universelle et Internationale, Brussels, 1935, no. 767, under Paintings, as Le bac.
1936
Tentoonstelling van Oude Kunst, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, April 1936, no. 34, under Paintings, as De Veerpont.
1936
Tentoonstelling van Oude Kunst uit het bezit van den Internationalen Handel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1936, no. 142, repro., as De Veerpont.
1936
Tentoonstelling van Schilderijen en Antiquiteiten, Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker N.V., Rotterdamschen Kunstkring, December 1936-January 1937, no. 57, repro., as De Veerpont.
1936
Tentoonstelling van Werken door Salomon van Ruysdael, Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker N.V., Amsterdam, January-February 1936, no. 34, as De Veerpont.
1937
Dutch Paintings, Etchings, Drawings, Delftware of the Seventeenth Century, John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, 1937, no. 65, repro., as The Ferry Boat.
1946
Herwonnen Kunstbezit, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1946, no. 55.
1946
Paintings Looted from Holland Returned through the Efforts of The United States Armed Forces, multi-venue tour in the United States and Canada, 1946-1948, nos. 36 and 39 (two editions of catalogue), as A Ferry.
1953
Holländer des 17. Jahrhunderts, Kunsthaus Zürich, 1953, no. 134, as Landschaft mit Fähre.
1954
Dutch Painting: The Golden Age. An Exhibition of Dutch Pictures of the Seventeenth Century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Toronto, 1954-1955, no. 73, repro., as The Ferry Boat.
1954
Pittura Olandese del Seicento, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1954, no. 136.
2008
Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker, Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, 2008, no. 22, repro.

Bibliography

1936
Hennus, A. "Tentoonstellingen. Amsterdam. ...Salomon van Ruysdael bij Goudstikker." Maandblad voor Beeldende Kunsten (1936): 58.
1936
Heppner, A., in Internationale Kunstwelt (January 1936): 32, ill. 2.
1938
Stechow, Wolfgang. Salomon van Ruysdael. Eine Einführung in seine Kunst. Mit kritischem Katalog der Gemälde und einem Bilderteil von 72 Abbildungen aug 48 Lichtdrucktafeln. Berlin, 1938: 124, no. 358, pl. 24, no. 33.58.
1954
Gerson, H. Nederlandse schilderkunst II: het tijdperk van Rembrandt en Vermeer. 3 vols. Amsterdam, 1950-1961: 2(1954):44, fig. 122.
1962
Meijer, E.R. "Salomon Jacobszoon van Ruysdael (kort na 1600-1670). 'Rivierlandschap met veerpont'." Openbaar kunstbezit 6 (1962): 35a-35b, repro.
1975
Stechow, Wolfgang. Salomon van Ruysdael. Eine Einführung in seine Kunst. Mit einem kritischem Katalog der Gemälde und einem Bilderteil von 82 Abbildungen aug 56 Tafeln. 2nd rev. ed. Berlin, 1975: no. 358, pl. 24.
1976
Thiel, P.J.J. van. All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. A completely illustrated catalogue. Amsterdam and Maarssen, 1976: 489, no. A3983, repro.
2008
Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. "Salomon van Ruysdael, River Landscape with Ferry." Bulletin / National Gallery of Art, no. 39 (Fall 2008): 28-29, repro.

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