Jan van Kessel (1641-1680)

Object category: painting
Support/medium: canvas, oil paint
Coarsely woven linen canvas. The ground is mid-tone grey. Glue-paste lined; the original tacking margins are absent and the painting has been reinforced with a strip lining. The paint surface has a fine overall cupping and a dark craquelure that is denser around the trees. Some abrasion in the landscape and in the sky around the trees. A large area of damage in the centre of the lower edge has been retouched, with a smaller circular one above. The figures are slightly worn and thin. Previous recorded treatment: 1866, ‘revived’, varnished and frame regilded; 1912, lined, Holder; 1949–53, Dr Hell (via Leeds and RA); 1984, strip-lined, surface cleaned, retouching adjusted, revarnished, National Maritime Museum (Sophia Plender).
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (landscape format) 118.7 x 154.9 cm

Current attribution: Jan van Kessel (1641-1680)

Bron: Kurt Erich Simon (1927)

Simon in 1927 and Rosenberg in 1928 independently suggested that the picture was by Jan van Kessel; this was endorsed by A. Davies in 1992
Rejected attribution: Jacob van Ruisdael
acquired as Ruisdael with figures by Adriaen van de Velde
: Jan Wijnants
until 1992 by the gallery considered to be made by Wijnants

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: c. 1665 (1660 - 1670)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Boslandschap met ruiter en knecht, in de verte Huis ten Bosch, Den Haag
English title: Wood near The Hague, with a View of the Huis ten Bosch
Genre: undetermined
Keywords: forest landscape, woods, dune landscape, manor house, topography, dirt road, gray (horse), horseman, dog, knapsack, pointing, walker, traveler, basket, dead tree
Depicted place In the case of topographical representations, i.e. identified exteriors or interiors, the location depicted is noted in this field: Huis ten Bosch

Artistically related to other work Such as a preparatory studie, comparable composition, other version, or copy of the artwork in this record.

based on
Jan van Kessel (1641-1680), Grote eik aan de rand van een bos
same form of the tree
based on
Jan van Kessel (1641-1680), Boslandschap met bospad
comparable tree
motif(s) similar to
Jan van Kessel (1641-1680), Boslandschap met vissers, een jager en reizigers
comparable form of the tree
motif(s) similar to
Jan van Kessel (1641-1680), Bebost landschap met een weg, Huis ten Bosch aan de horizon
comparable subject: same palace, woods and traveller

Collection(s)

private collection Sir Francis Bourgeois, London
as Jacob Isaacsz. van Ruisdael with figures by Adriaen van de Velde
- 1811
Dulwich Picture Gallery, Dulwich (London) , inv./cat.nr DPG210
Bourgeois Bequest
Britton 1813, p. 27, no. 271 (‘Unhung / no. 2, Landscape, a large tree by Ruysdael: figs C[anvas] Vandervelde’; 5'4" x 6'7").
1811 - Lent to the RA to be copied in 1842, 1848 and 1851.

Exhibitions

Dutch pictures 1450-1750 Royal Academy of Arts , London (England) , 1952-11-22 - 1953-03-01 , p. 63, no. 316, Jan Wijnants
Dutch landscape painting [Newcastle, 1983] Laing Art Gallery , Newcastle upon Tyne , 1983-10-13 - 1983-12-03 , p. 100, Jan Wijnants
Dutch and Flemish painting in Norfolk : a history of taste and influence, fashion and collecting Norwich Castle Museum , Norwich (Norfolk) , 1988-09-10 - 1988-11-20 , p. 130–131, no. 88 (A. Moore), Jan Wijnants
Dutch Italianates; 17th century masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery London , The Dulwich Picture Gallery , London (England) , 2008 , no. 22
The Dutch Italianates : 17th century masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery, London reizende tentoonstelling , United States of America , 2008 - 2009 , p. 72–3, no. 22 (I. A. C. Dejardin), Jan van Kessel

Literature

Smith 1829-1842 , vol. 6 (1835), p. 278–279, no. 168 , Jan Wynants, figures by A. van de Velde
Jameson 1842 , vol. 2, p. 488, no. 278 , Ruysdael
Sparkes 1876 , p. 215, no. 278 (Wynants, figures by A. van de Velde)
Richter/Sparkes 1880 , p. 146–147, no. 278 , monogrammed by J. van Ruisdael [since removed], figures by A. van de Velde
Richter/Sparkes 1892 , p. 57, no. 210 , NB: in 1892 the paintings were given the inventory numbers they still have
Richter/Sparkes 1905 , p. 57
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1927 (English edition) , vol. 4 (1911), p. 230, no. 761 , Ruisdael, with his monogram; figures by Lingelbach
Cook 1914 , p. 132-133
Cook 1926 , p. 124-125
Rosenberg 1928 , p. 118, n. 7 , Jan van Kessel
Blunt/Burchard/Waterhouse 1953 , p. 44 , Jan Wijnants
Murray 1980 , p. 143 , Jan Wijnants
Murray 1980A , p. 31
Davies 1992 , p. 2, 4, 10, 35, 54, 129–31, no. 21, p. 246 under no. d32, fig. 215 , Jan van Kessel
Beresford 1998 , p. 141 , Jan van Kessel
Eisele 2000 , p. 294, fig. V 35
Slive 2001 , p. 622, dub23
Wagenaar 2014 , p. 188-189 (fig.), 255
Bergvelt/Jonker 2016 , p. 124-125

Cat. 1817 [copy in RM: 453 D 62] R. Cockburn, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures Bequeathed to Dulwich College by the late Sir Francis Bourgeois, 356 nos., p. 9, no. 157 (Second Room – East Side; A View near the Hague; Ruysdael)
[B.R. Haydon], ‘Art. X. Descriptive and Critical Catalogues of the most splendid collections of works of art in Great Britain. Catalogue of the Pictures bequeathed to God’s Gift College, Dulwich, in the Country of Surrey, by the late Sir Francis Bourgeois, R.A. &c. &c. as they are now arranged in the new Gallery erected for their reception; with brief Remarks on some of the most interesting’, Annals of the Fine Arts for MDCCCXVI [1816], 1 (1817), p. 385, no. 157
Cat. 1820, R. Cockburn, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures Bequeathed to Dulwich College by the late Sir Francis Bourgeois, 356 nos. [c. 1820 – in NAL 79A], p. 9, no. 157 (Ruisdael)
Cat. 1830 Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures Bequeathed to Dulwich College by the late Sir Francis Bourgeois, London s.d. 355 nos. [c. 1830 + annotations NAL], p. 13, no. 278 (Ruisdael)
S.P. Denning [assisted by the Rev Stephen Denning], ‘Catalogue of Pictures’ (MS, DPG archive; unfoliated; picture numbers up to no. 366), London 1858, no. 278 (John Wynants or Jacob Ruysdael)
not in Denning 1859
H. Wallis, The Magazine of Art, 4 (1881), p. 222, no. 278
E. Michel, Jacob van Ruysdael et les paysages de l’école de Harlem, Paris 1890, vol. 1, p. 86 (Ruisdael, under Wijnants influence, figures by A. van de Velde)
K. E. Simon, Jacob van Ruisdael, Eine Darstellung seiner Entwicklung, Berlin 1927 (revised second edition), p. 75, no. 761 (Ein Meisterwerk Jan van Kessels)
[M. Ellis], An Exhibition of Fifty-One Pictures from the Gregynog, Dulwich College and other Collections, Aberystwyth 1947 [exh. National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth], p. 10, no. 18 (J. van Ruisdael and A. van de Velde)
H.G.[erson], in: ‘Editorial. Dutch Pictures at the Royal Academy’, The Burlington Magazine 95 (1953), p. 34, no. 316 (‘Huis ten Bosch in background. Perhaps painted by Wynants in collaboration with Jan van Kessel’)
H. Gerson, ‘Dutch Landscape’, The Burlington Magazine 95 (1953), p. 51, n. 17 (perhaps painted by Wynants in collaboration with Jan van Kessel)
Paintings from the Dulwich College Picture Gallery, London 1954, p. 8, [60] (Jan Wynants)
G. Waterfield and Chr. Brown, Collection for a King: Old Master Paintings from the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 1985 [exh. DPG/NGA/County Museum of Art, Los Angeles 1985-6], p. 120–121, no. 35 (Wijnants; C. Brown)
C. Ikegami (ed.), Old master paintings from the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 1986 [exh. Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo/Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art/The Daimaru Museum, Osaka/Takashimaya, Yokohama 1986-7], p. 144–145, no. 38 (Wijnants; C. Brown; in Japanese)

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001255176)
BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 0000343526)

Project: Gerson Digital : United Kingdom

External links: this artwork in Dulwich Picture Gallery
entry in Bergvelt/Jonker 2021
permanent link to Bergvelt/Jonker 2021

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Creation date: 2012-05-21; Last modified date: 2022-09-14

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