Jacob van Ruisdael (Haarlem 1628/9-1682 Amsterdam), A winter landscape with a view of a town and wooden bridge

Jacob van Ruisdael (Haarlem 1628/9-1682 Amsterdam)
A winter landscape with a view of a town and wooden bridge
signed with monogram ‘JvR’ (lower left)
oil on panel
10 1/8 x 13 1/8 in. (25.8 x 33.2 cm.)

Provenance
(Possibly) Benoît Audran the Younger; his sale (†), Paris, 30 March 1772 (=1st day), lot 192 (25 livres to Lapierre).
M.M. van Valkenburg, Laren, Gelderland.
with Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 1932.
J.C.H. Heldring, Oosterbeek, by 1942; his sale (†), Sotheby's, London, 27 March 1963, lot 14 (£8,500 to G. Bischoff).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 18 January 1984, lot 159 ($75,000).
with Agnew’s, London, by 1984, where acquired by,
Hans Peter Wertitsch, Vienna, 1987, and by descent to the present owners.

Pre-Lot Text
Property from a Private European Collection

Literature
J. Rosenberg, Jacob van Ruisdael, Berlin, 1928, p. 100, no. 614.
Maandblad voor beeldende Kunsten, IX, March 1932, p. 68.
D. Hannema, Catalogue of the Collection of J.C.H. Heldring, Rotterdam, 1955, no. 6, fig. 33.
W. Stechow, Dutch Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1966, p. 96.
S. Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings and Etchings, New Haven & London, 2001, pp. 468 and 487, no. 690.

Exhibited
Rotterdam, Boymans Museum, Winter Exhibition, 1927-8, no. 11.
Delft, Prinsenhof Museum, Nederlands meesters uit particulier bezit, 21 December 1952-1 February 1953, no. 60.
Arnhem, Gemeente Museum, Collectie J.C.H. Heldring, 6 April-1 June 1958, no. 26.
Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Collectie J.C.H. Heldring, 25 May-24 July 1960, no. 31.
Vienna, Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der Bildenden Künste, September 2010-2017 (on loan).