{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O81374"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O81374/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2007BP0708/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2007BP0708/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2007BP0708","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O81374/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O81374","accessionNumber":"CAI.85","objectType":"Oil painting","titles":[{"title":"The Mill","type":"generic title"}],"summaryDescription":"A landscape with a dilapidated wooden building by a steam, on the bridge traversing to the opposite bank sits an angler, in the background a church spire and house just visible.  Cornelis Decker is a relatively little-known Dutch landscape painter who was active in Haarlem. This work is typical of Decker's landscapes in the manner of Jacob van Ruisdael. He also imitated the style of Jan Wijnants and Philips Wouwermans.  The rickety building however is a signature of Decker's style","physicalDescription":"A landscape with a dilapidated wooden building by a steam, on the bridge traversing to the bank opposite sits an angler, in the background a church spire and house just visible.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Decker, Cornelis Gerritsz.","id":"A9736"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"oil paint","id":"AAT15050"},{"text":"oak","id":"AAT12264"}],"techniques":[{"text":"oil painting","id":"AAT178684"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Oil on oak panel","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"}],"styles":[{"text":"Dutch School","id":"x31259"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2007BP0708"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"A","id":"THES304484"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"oil paintings","id":"AAT33799"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Haarlem","id":"x37415"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1645","earliest":"1645-01-01","latest":"1645-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by Constantine Alexander Ionides","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"31.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"estimate","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"39.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"estimate","note":""},{"dimension":"Weight","value":"4.5","unit":"kg","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"with frame","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"51","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"frame","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"65","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"frame","note":""},{"dimension":"","value":"","unit":"","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":"Measurement taken at time of assessment prior to BH decant - Frame Dimensions (mm): H-513 W-605 D-55;\nPainting Dimensions (mm): not measured"}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from <u>Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I. Before 1800</u>, C.M. Kauffmann, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1973","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'D . . . 1645'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Signed and dated by the artist, lower right; the signature is mostly illegible."}],"objectHistory":"Purchased as attributed to Ruisdael by Constantine Alexander Ionides, 30 May 1882, for £18 (his inventory, private collection). Bequeathed by Constantine Alexander Ionides, 1900.\r\nPainting originally bore a false signature and date Ruisdael, 1649 which was removed when the picture was cleaned in 1909.\n\nHistorical significance: This landscape is a fine example of those painted by the Haarlem artists in the second half of the seventeenth century. Cornelis Decker is a relatively little-known Dutch landscape painter who was active in Haarlem. This work is typical of Decker's landscapes in the manner of Jacob van Ruisdael. He also imitated the style of Jan Wijnants and Philips Wouwermans.  The rickety building by a stream however is a signature of Decker's style and reappears for example in one of the two of his paintings sold at Sotheby's New York, 25 Jan. 08. The bridge is similar to the one depiced in a picture sold at Sotheby's London, July 3, 1997.","historicalContext":"This wooded landscape is a fine example of those painted by the Haarlem artists in the second half of the seventeenth century.  The lead figure of the Haarlem school of landscape painting in this peirod was Jacob van Ruisdael, of whom Cornelis Decker was a pupil. Ruisadael's influence on Decker is visible in this work in terms of composition and style such as the dense foliage and sombre tonality.","briefDescription":"Oil painting, 'The Mill', Cornelis Gerritsz. Decker, 1645","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Kauffmann, C.M., <u>Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I. Before 1800</u>, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973, p. 83, cat. no. 82"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"C. Monkhouse, 'The Constantine Ionides Collection' in <u>Magazine of Art,</u> vii, 1884, pp. 36-44, 208-214."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Basil S. Long, <u>Catalogue of the Constantine Alexander Ionides collection.Vol. 1, Paintings in oil, tempera and water-colour, together with certain of the drawings. </u> \r\n(London : Printed under the authority of the Board of Education, 1925), no. 85."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Matias Diaz Padrón, 'Un paisaje restituido a Cornelis Decker en el Museo del Prado'   in <u>Archivo español de arte</u>, 46.1973, p. 75-76 ."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"streams","id":"AAT8699"},{"text":"fishing","id":"AAT239470"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["CAI.85"],"accessionNumberNum":"85","accessionNumberPrefix":"CAI","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-25","recordCreationDate":"2003-06-11","availableToBook":true}}