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Jacob van Ruisdael
View of Grainfields with a Distant Towncirca 1670

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Oil painting landscape with vast cloudy sky over flat Dutch countryside, a procession of white-robed figures in the middle distance, and a lone dark figure with a dog on a path in the foreground
Reverse of a framed canvas showing aged brown backing board with scattered institutional labels, including a green Los Angeles County Museum of Art label, a Philadelphia Museum of Art label, a Royal Academy of Arts London label, and a Newhouse Galleries label at upper right.
Artist or Maker
Jacob van Ruisdael
Northern Netherlands, 1628/29-1682
Title
View of Grainfields with a Distant Town
Date Made
circa 1670
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 20 1/4 × 25 1/2 in. (51.44 × 64.77 cm) Framed: 29 × 34 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (73.66 × 87.63 × 8.89 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter
Accession Number
M.2009.106.12
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance

Friedrich Moritz (1742–1814), Freiherr, after 1803 Graf von Brabeck, Söder, near Hildesheim, by 1792,(1) by inheritance through his daughter; Philippine (1796–1821), Gräfin von Brabeck, to her husband (m. 1817); Andreas Stolberg (1786–1863), Freiherr von Söder (sale, Hannover, Rumpler, 31 Oct. 1859, lot 230). Freiherr von Savigny,(2) Berlin. [P. Cassirer, Berlin, sold 1918 to]; Private collection, Sweden. Private collection, Norway. [Frederick Mont, New York, 1970, sold to]; Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter, Los Angeles, given 2009 to; LACMA.

Footnotes

(1) For Brabeck (also Brabek), see Ramdohr 1792, Kracht 1978, and Wittstock 2008.

(2) Probably the jurist Friedrich Karl Savigny (1779–1861), who left teaching in 1842, when he was named Grosskanzler of Prussia.

Selected Bibliography
  • Walsh, Amy L. The Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carter Collection of Dutch Paintings. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019. https://archive.org/details/Carter_Collection_Dutch_Paintings (accessed May 23, 2022).