Salomon van Ruysdael

Marquis de Biencourt, Château d'Azay-le-Rideau;

Gustave Rothan (1822-1890), Paris, by 1874;

His estate sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 29-31 May 1890, lot 98, for 8,000 francs;

Adolphe Schloss (1842-1910), Paris, by 1923;

Thence by inheritance to his wife, Lucie Haas Schloss (1858-1938);

Thence by descent to their children and taken to the Château de Chambon, Laguenne, for safekeeping, August 1939;

Confiscated by German occupation forces on 16 April 1943;

Allocated to the Linz Museum Project and deposited at the Führerbau, Munich (crate #3), 24 November 1943;

Stolen by unknown individuals from the Führerbau, Munich, 29-30 April 1945;

Recovered by the Allied Forces and taken to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP inv. no. 46096), 12 February 1948;

Repatriated to France on 3 June 1948 and restituted thereafter to the Estate of Adolphe Schloss, Paris, 6 July 1948;

By whom sold, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 25 May 1949, lot 54;

Where acquired by a private collector, for 2,100,000 francs;

Anonymous sale ("Property from a European Collection"), New York, Sotheby's, 28 January 2010, lot 165;

Where acquired by Richard Green, London;

Acquired by the late collector via private sale, Sotheby's New York, December 2010.

Paris, Palais Bourbon, Ouvrages de peinture exposés au profit de la colonisation de l'Algérie par les Alsaciens-Lorrains, 1874, no. 455 (lent by M. Rothan).

Explication des Ouvrages de peinture exposés au profit de la colonisation de l'Algérie par les Alsaciens-Lorrains, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1874, p. 79, cat. no. 455 (as dated 1649);

W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, Berlin 1938, pp. 130, cat. no. 522;

The Frick Collection: An Illustrated Catalogue, vol. I, New York 1968, p. 284 note 2;

W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, Berlin 1975, pp. 149-150, cat. no. 522.