Core Record |
| Title |
Landscape with a Cottage, Bridge, and Sheep |
| Collection |
Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum |
| Artist |
Ruisdael, Jacob van (Dutch painter and draftsman, born 1628 or 1629, died 1682) |
| Date Earliest |
probably about 1650 |
| Date Latest |
probably about 1655 |
| Signed |
yes |
| Description |
In centre is a cottage amongst trees and in foreground is a rather unstable looking foot bridge across a stream. One figure is walking down a path to the bridge but a shepherd in centre foreground has chosen to drive his sheep through the water and wade behind them. In left foreground is a prominent dead tree stump. |
| Current Accession Number |
612 |
| Former Accession Number |
424 (1893) |
| Inscription |
front ll (in monogram) 'JR' |
| Subject |
landscape; figure; animal (sheep) |
| Measurements |
55.2 x 68.6 cm cm (estimate) |
| Material |
oil on canvas |
| Acquisition Details |
Bequeathed by Mrs John Graham-Gilbert 1877. |
| Provenance |
Possibly Lebrun sale, Remy, Paris, 19-20 July 1773, lot 26, bought by Lebrun, 210 francs; probably R. D. Alston sale, Glasgow, 29 April 1847, lot 149, bought by Watkins; John Graham-Gilbert (1794-1866); by descent to Mrs. John Graham-Gilbert. |
| Principal Exhibitions |
Dutch Landscape Painting, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1983, cat. no. 36. |
| Publications |
Hofstede de Groot, C., 'Hollandsche Kunst in Schotland', Oud Holland, 11, 1893, p. 144, 424, as an old and good copy; Rosenberg, J., Jacob van Ruisdael, Berlin, 1928, cat. no. 496; Miles, H., Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Paintings in the Glasgow Art Gallery, Glasgow, 1961, I, p. 124, no. 612, II, p. 77; Slive, S., Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue, New Haven and London, 2001, pp. 404-405, no. 567, as early 1650s. |
| Rights Owner |
Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author |
Robert Wenley |
