Dunes by the Sea
1648
Painter, Dutch, c. 1628/1629 - 1682


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 47
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on panel
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 45.4 × 61.6 cm (17 7/8 × 24 1/4 in.)
framed: 64.77 × 83.19 cm (25 1/2 × 32 3/4 in.) -
Accession
2017.55.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Richter Oelrich, Bremen, c. 1820; purchased 1928 by Bernhard Hausmann [1784-1873], Hanover;[1] private sale 1 October 1857 to King George V of Hanover [1819-1878];[2] by inheritance to his son, Ernest August II, Crown Prince of Hanover and 3rd Duke of Cumberland [1845-1923];[3] (his estate sale, Rudolph Lepke Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 31 March 1925, no. 63, sold for 16,500 Reichsmarks). art market, Düsseldorf. private collection, Cologne, in 1948; (Kunsthandel K. & V. Waterman, Amsterdam), in 1982; purchased 1983 by Norman and Suzanne Hascoe, Greenwich, Connecticut; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, New York, 4 June 2014, no. 38); (Richard Green Fine Paintings, London); purchased May 2017 by NGA.
[1] See Joachim Petersen, Bernhard Hausmann: Burger, Fabrikant, Kunstsammler, Gottingen, 2009: 241: “The [four] landscapes by [Jacob van Ruisdael] were very highly regarded by Hausmann, especially ‘Dunes by the Sea’, purchased in 1828 in Bremen for 100 Thaler [then follows a quote, presumably from Hausmann]: 'Seit langem gekanntes kapital-Bild von erstem Range, von der seltensten Ausführung und Erhaltung' (Long since a well-known capital painting of the first order, of exceptional execution and preservation)."
[2] On a small piece of wood, inserted at the lower center of the cradle on the reverse of the panel, is painted all in red a monogram of the initials GR, surmounted by a crown, with a small V below the initials. These are the initials of King George V of Hanover. See Petersen 2009, 182-183: “The complete collection of paintings was sold to [King George V of Hannover] on 1 October 1857 for the--according to Hausmann’s (very accurate) opinion, not high--price of 48,000 Thaler, payable in annual installments of 5,000 Thaler, but it was to remain in Hausmann’s house until further notice. … Until the death of Hausmann [13 May 1873], [the painting collection] stayed in his house and was open to the public as the ‘George V Collection of Paintings’.” The painting’s owner and location was listed as “Hannover, Hausmann” by G. Parthey in Deutscher Bildersaal – Verzeichniss der in Deutschland vorhandenen Oelbilder verstorbener Maler aller Schulen, 2 vols. in 4, Berlin, 1864: 2:461, no. 135, which thus identified the work’s location, but not correctly its owner.
[3 From 1866 until 1893, the royal collection was confiscated by the State of Prussia following the annexation of Hanover, and placed under the control of the Fideikommiss-Galerie des Gesamthauses Braunschwieg und Lüneburg. Despite the confiscation, from 1866 until Hausmann’s death in May 1873, the collection remained at his residence. For the timeline of the confiscation, see Helmut R. Leppien, “Die Bilder der Bürger,” in Verschollener Ruhm – Bilder aus dem Depot der Landesgalerie Hannover zeigen den Kunstgeschmack des 19. Jahrhunderts. Exh. cat. Kunstverein Hannover, 1975: 6, 9.
From 1893, the painting was on long-term loan to the Provinzial-Museum Hannover as part of the “Cumberland-Galerie.” See _Katalog der zur Fideikommiss-Galerie des Gesamthauses Braunschwieg und Lüneburg gehörigen Sammlung von Gemälden und Skulpturen im Provinzial-Museum_, Hanover, 1905: 118, no. 357; https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t0vq6882x, accessed 30 June 2017. In _A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century_, 8 vols., translated by Edward G. Hawke, London, 1907-1927: 4(1912):285, no. 925, Cornelis Hofstede de Groot erroneously lists the painting as actually belonging to the Provinzial-Museum instead of Ernst August II, the Duke of Cumberland.
Associated Names
- Oelrich, Richter
- Hausmann, Bernhard David
- Hanover and 2nd Duke of Cumberland, George V, King of
- Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, Ernest
- Rudolph Lepke Kunst-Auctions-Haus
- Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
- Kunsthandel K. & V. Waterman
- Norman and Suzanne Hascoe
- Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
- Richard Green
Exhibition History
1954
Meisterwerke holländischer Landschaftsmalerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 1954, no. 19.
1981
Jacob van Ruisdael, Mauritshuis, The Hague; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981-1982, no. 8.
1983
Loan to display with permanent collection, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1983-1987.
2002
Pleasures of Collecting: Part I, Renaissance to Impressionist, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, 2002-2003, unnumbered catalogue.
2005
Old Master Paintings from the Hascoe Collection, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, 2005, no. 8.
Jacob van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2005-2006, no. 9.
2021
Clouds, Ice, and Bounty: The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Collection of Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021, no. 20, repro.
Bibliography
n.d.
Führer durch die Museen in Hannover und Herrenhausen: Ein Gang durch die Cumberland-Galerie in Hannover. Hannover, n.d., after 1889: 9, unnumbered, as Sandhugel am Meere "on the rear wall" of Kabinet 9.
1831
Hausmann, Bernhard. Verzeichniss der Hausmann'schen Gemählde-Sammlung in Hannover. Braunschweig, 1831: 134-135, no. 270.
1863
Parthey, Gustav Friedrich. Deutscher Bildersaal. Verzeichniss der in Deutschland vorhandenen Oelbilder verstorbener Maler aller Schulen. 2 vols. Berlin, 1863-1864: 2(1864):461, no. 135.
1891
Katalog der zum Ressort der Königlichen Verwaltungs-Kommission gehörigen Sammlung von Gemälden, Skulpturen und Alterthümern im Provinzial-Museumsgebäude an der Prinzenstrasse Nr. 4 zu Hannover. Hannover, 1891: no. 474.
1905
Katalog der zur Fideikommiss-Galerie des Gesamthauses Braunschwieg und Lüneburg gehörigen Sammlung von Gemälden und Skulpturen im Provinzial-Museum. Hannover, 1905: 118, no. 357.
1907
Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. 8 vols. Translated by Edward G. Hawke. London, 1907-1927: 4(1912):285, no. 925.
1928
Rosenberg, Jakob. Jacob van Ruisdael. Berlin, 1928: no. 567.
1991
Walford, E. John. Jacob van Ruisdael and the Perception of Landscape. New Haven, 1991: 64.
2001
Slive, Seymour. Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings and Etchings. New Haven, 2001: 446-447, no. 635, repro.
2009
Petersen, Joachim. Bernhard Hausmann: Burger, Fabrikant, Kunstsammler. Gottiingen, 2009: 241.
Inscriptions
lower center: J Ruisdael . 1648
Wikidata ID
Q20804651