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, Replica Shoes 's, 28 January 2010, lot 165;

Where acquired by Richard Green, London;

Acquired by the late collector via private sale, Replica Shoes '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.