JACOB ISAACKSZ. VAN RUISDAEL (Haarlem 1628-1682... Lot 3045

JACOB ISAACKSZ. VAN RUISDAEL (Haarlem 1628-1682 Amsterdam) A Scandinavian landscape with a waterfall in the foreground and a hut on a headland beyond. Oil on canvas. Signed on the lower left of the stone: JvRuisdaeL. 38,5 × 33,7 cm. Provenance: - Christie's auction, London, 14.7.1978, lot 235. - Private collection France. In this landscape from the late 1650s, Ruisdael pays tribute to the Scandinavian landscapes of Allart van Everdingen (1621-1675), which Everdingen had seen firsthand. Ruisdael not only captures a timeless romantic mood, but his execution of translucent clouds and glittering cascade distinguishes him as the supreme master of 17th-century Dutch landscape. Small-scale landscapes with waterfall are rather rare in Ruisdael's œuvre and similar depictions can be found, for example, in Brussels, del Monte Collection and in The Hague, Rijksdienst Beeldene Kunst (see Seymour Slive: Jacob van Ruisdael, A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings and Etchings, New Haven and London 2001, pp. 168-169, no. 160 and p. 198, no. 199). These objects marked with * (asterisk) are fully subject to VAT, i.e. for these objects VAT will be charged on the hammer price plus buyer's premium. Buyers who present a legally stamped export declaration will be refunded the VAT.