Lot 121PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

SALOMON VAN RUYSDAEL (NAARDEN ?1600/3-1670 HAARLEM)

A wooded landscape with a herdsman on horseback driving his cattle and shepherds with their flock, a man walking his dogs in the dunes, a village with the ruins of Egmond Abbey beyond

Closed8 July 2022

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GBP 138,600

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SALOMON VAN RUYSDAEL (NAARDEN ?1600/3-1670 HAARLEM)
A wooded landscape with a herdsman on horseback driving his cattle and shepherds with their flock, a man walking his dogs in the dunes, a village with the ruins of Egmond Abbey beyond
signed and dated 'SvRVISDAEL• 1663' (lower left, 'SvR' in ligature)
oil on panel
13 1⁄2 x 24 7⁄8 in. (34.2 x 63.1 cm.)

with Duits, London.

Specialist note

This unrecorded work can be compared with Ruysdael's slightly earlier panel, dated 1657, also showing Egmond Abbey, sold in these Rooms, 9 July 1999, lot 37 (£120,000). We are grateful to Dr. Fred G. Meijer and Ellis Dullaart of the RKD, The Hague, for confirming the attribution to Ruysdael, on the basis of photographs.