Follower of Jacob van Ruisdael

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 20 July 1960, lot 174 (as Jacob van Ruisdael);

With Central Picture Galleries, New York;

From whom acquired by Marc and Lillian Rojtman, 1960;

By whose estate sold ("Property from the Estate of Lillian Rojtman Berkman"), Sotheby's New York, 28 January 2005, lot 533;

Where acquired by Aso O. Tavitian.

Combining the picturesque elements of a lone cottage and shepherd beneath ominous rain clouds, the present painting is a smaller version of an autograph work by Jacob van Ruisdael in the Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow (inventory no. 612). See S. Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael, A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings, New Haven 2001, p. 404-405, cat. no. 567.