Lot 30: Salomon van Ruysdael Naarden 1600/3 - 1670 Haarlem , a river landscape with a cattle ferry by a wooded bank; a landscape with figures in a wagon by a house overhung with tress a pair, both oil on oak panel, circular

the former signed with monogram and dated centre left on the jetty: SVR 1633 ( VR in compendium) the latter signed with monogram and dated lower left: SVR/ 1633 ( VR in compendium) a pair, both oil on oak panel, circular Quantity: 2

measurements note diameter, each: 39.8 cm.; 15 3/4 in.

W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, Berlin 1938, cat. nos. 76 and 77;
W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, revised ed., Berlin 1975, p. 79, cat. nos. 76 and 77.

In the collection of a noble German-Danish family, Brandenburg, by whom acquired between 1839 and 1840 on their honeymoon;
Thence by descent to F. von Bethmann-Hollweg, Hohenfinow near Eberswalde, Brandenburg, Germany, 1938 (the date of Stechow's first catalogue raisonné);
Thence by descent until......

PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
These works are typical of their date. The first is similar in composition to two oval river landscapes by Ruysdael, also dated 1633: one sold at Sotheby's in New York, 26 January 2007, lot 398; the other sold at Sotheby's in London, 8 July 1999, lot 16 (£250,000). The second may be compared with another oval panel of 1633: a landscape with a wagon sold at Sotheby's in London, 26 April 2001, lot 70 (£100,000). The latter two are on oval panels of identical size, and may, like the present two tondi, have been conceived as pendants.