(Haarlem circa 1601–1670)
Windmills by a riverbank,
signed and dated lower center: S. V. Ruyesdael 1629,
oil on panel, 28 x 38.7 cm, oval, framed

Provenance:
sale, Roos & Co, P. C. Haemacher, F. L. Berré, Amsterdam, 30 November 1897, lot 96;
Collection of Duchessa Marie di Bojano, née Countess of Schönborn-Wiesentheid (1848-1929), Florence;
Collection of Constantin G. Nano (1870–1952), Berlin;
his sale, Lepke, Berlin, 3 April 1928, lot 200;
sale, Drouot, Paris, 15 December 1980, lot 36;
with Galerie Müllenmeister, Solingen;
Rhenish private collection;
sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 17 May 2014, lot 1141;
where bought by the present owner

Literature:
W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, Berlin 1975, p. 82, no. 96

Ellis Dullaart from the RKD, The Hague, has confirmed the authenticity of the present painting.

In his monograph of the artist, Wolfgang Stechow mentioned that the development of Ruysdael’s signature can be examined much more accurately than the ones of his contemporaries (see op. cit. Stechow, 1975, p. 49). The phase from 1628 to 1631 was the only time in which the artist wrote his surname with an extra ‘e’ in the middle, as is the case in this painting, which is dated 1629.