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Three individuals can be seen in the distance at left."},"main_reference_number":"1894.1031","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1660,"date_end":1670,"date_display":"c. 1665","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Meindert Hobbema (Dutch, 1638\u20131709)","place_of_origin":"Holland","description":"<p>A pupil of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artists\/41354\/jacob-van-ruisdael\">Jacob van Ruisdael<\/a>, Meindert Hobbema often borrowed motifs from his teacher, such as the watermill seen here. Watermills, which Hobbema employed more than 30 times in his paintings and which abounded along country waterways, would have been understood as symbols of human transience and Dutch industriousness. The well-dressed figures farther along the path at the left are intended to suggest the rewards of productivity and diligence.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"81.3 \u00d7 110 cm (32 \u00d7 43 1\/4 in.); Framed: 101.3 \u00d7 130.5 \u00d7 8.3 cm (39 7\/8 \u00d7 51 3\/8 \u00d7 3 1\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":110,"height":81,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":8,"width":130,"height":101,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Inscribed lower left: hobbema","credit_line":"Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"John Smith, Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9 of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch and Flemish Painters, vol. 6, London, 1835, pp. 151-52, no. 105.\n\n\u201cRare Old Paintings.  Works of Famous Dutch Masters at the Art Institute,\u201dChicago Post, November 7, 1890.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum, 1895, no. 164.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and other Objects of Art in the Museum, 1901, p. 148, no. 16 ill.\n\nFrederick W. Morton, \u201cNotable Art Works at Pittsburg,\u201d Brush and Pencil 11, 3 (1902), pp. 182, 191 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and other Objects of Art in the Museum, 1904, pp. 153-4, no. 16, ill.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Important facts regarding The Art Institute of Chicago with reproductions of the Demidoff Masterpieces, Chicago, 1905, p. 9, ill. p. 16.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects, 1907, pp. 164-5, no. 16, ill. \n\nCornelis Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9 of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century Based on the Work of John Smith, trans. Edward G. Hawke, vol. 4, London, 1912, p. 377, no. 71.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Handbook of Paintings, Chicago, 1920, p. 19, no. 16. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, Chicago, 1925, pp. 19 ill, 140, no. 16.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, Chicago, 1932, pp. 25 ill., 157. \n\nDaniel Catton Rich, \u201cDie Ausstellung \u2018F\u00fcnf Jahrhunderte der Fr\u00fchmalerei\u2019 in Chicago,\u201d Pantheon12 (1933), p. 380\n\nGeorges Brouhiet, Meindert Hobbema, Paris, 1938, p. 378, no. 13, fig. 13.\n\nAdolph Goldschmidt, \u201cThe Style of Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century,\u201d The Art Quarterly 2 (1939), p, 8, fig. 10.\n\nCharles Fabens Kelley, \u201cChicago:  Record Years,\u201d Art News 51, 4 (1952), p. 59.\n\nWolfgang Stechow, \u201cOptic and Opulence:  A Brilliant View of Dutch Painting,\u201d Art News 53, 7 (1954), p. 20.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Chicago, 1961, p. 216, ill. p. 192.\n\nFrederick A. Sweet, \u201cGreat Chicago Collectors,\u201d Apollo 84, 55 (1966), p. 191.\n\nWolfgang Stechow, Dutch Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1966, p. 378, no. 13, ill. p. 109.\n\nWallace Collection Catalogues, Pictures and Drawings, 16th edition, London, 1968, p. 150, under no. P99.\n\nJohn Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, London, 1970, pp. 261, ill., 282.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, 100 Masterpieces,  Chicago, 1978, pp. 62-63, no. 25, ill.\n\nJohn D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America, New York, 1979, p. 168, ill. \n\nPeter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America, Grand Rapids, 1986, p. 51, ill.\n\nWalter Liedtke, \u201cThe Collectors and Their Ideals,\u201d in Ben Broos, Great Dutch Paintings from America, exh. cat. (The Hague, Mauritshuis, 1990), p. 35.\n\nKendall L. Walton, Mimesis as Make-Believe.  On the Foundations of the Representational Arts, Cambridge, Mass., 1990, pp. 293-5, 304-5, fig. 8.1.\n\nCelia Hilliard, \"'The Prime Mover': Charles L. Hutchinson and the Making of the Art Institute of Chicago,\" Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 36,1 (2010), p. 43, fig. 10.\n\nLytle Shaw, New Grounds for Dutch Landscape, Stockholm, 2021, p. 196, fig. 81.","exhibition_history":"Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Loan Exhibition of Paintings, 1902\/1903, no. 70.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 66.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 93.\n\nNew York World\u2019s Fair, Masterpieces of Art, 1939, no. 193.\n\nNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dutch Painting.  The Golden Age,  An Exhibition of Dutch Pictures of the Seventeenth Century under the High Patronage of Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, 1954\/1955, no. 42, traveled to Toledo Museum of Art,.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, The Artist Looks at the Landscape, 1974, no cat. \n\nAmsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Masters of 17th-Century Dutch Landscape, October 2, 1987- January 3, 1988, cat. 46; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, February 3-May 1, 1988; Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 5-July 31, 1988.\n\nStuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Die Entdeckung der Landscaft.  Meisterwerke der niederl\u00e4ndischen Kunst des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, 2005, no. 36.","provenance_text":"Possibly John Ellis, London 1755 [according to Smith 1835].  Possibly Lord Mount Temple [Hofstede de Groot cites Durand Ruel as the source of this information].  Durand-Ruel, Paris, by 1890; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 1890, together with a group of Dutch and Flemish paintings, many from the Demidoff collection, using funds advanced by four trustees and reimbursed through the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. 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