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Jacob van Ruisdael - Forest Lake with two Swans

Forest Lake with two Swans (ca 1660-1665)

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
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Jacob van Ruisdael

Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He is generally considered the pre-eminent landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, a period of great wealth and cultural achievement when Dutch painting became highly popular.

Prolific and versatile, Ruisdael depicted a wide variety of landscape subjects. From 1646 he painted Dutch countryside scenes of remarkable quality for a young man. After a trip to Germany in 1650, his landscapes took on a more heroic character. In his late work, conducted when he lived and worked in Amsterdam, he added city panoramas and seascapes to his regular repertoire. In these, the sky often took up two-thirds of the canvas. In total he produced more than 150 Scandinavian views featuring waterfalls.

Ruisdael's only registered pupil was Meindert Hobbema, one of several artists who painted figures in his landscapes. Hobbema's work has at times been confused with Ruisdael's. There is difficulty in attributing Ruisdael's work, which has not been helped by the fact that three members of his family were also landscape painters, some of whom spelled their name "Ruysdael": his father Isaack van Ruisdael, his well-known uncle Salomon van Ruysdael, and his cousin, confusingly called Jacob van Ruysdael.

Ruisdael's work was in demand in the Dutch Republic during his lifetime. Today it is spread across private and institutional collections around the world; the National Gallery in London, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg hold the largest collections. Ruisdael shaped landscape painting traditions worldwide, from the English Romantics to the Barbizon school in France, and the Hudson River School in the US, and influenced generations of Dutch landscape artists.

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Sandy Track in the Dunes

Sandy Track in the Dunes (c. 1650 - c. 1655)

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
Waterfall in Norway

Waterfall in Norway

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
The ford

The ford (1650 - 1682)

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
Winter Landscape

Winter Landscape (c. 1665)

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
Wooded and Hilly Landscape

Wooded and Hilly Landscape (1660s)

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
Landscape with cornfields and a thatched barn

Landscape with cornfields and a thatched barn

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
View of Alkmaar 

View of Alkmaar  (1675)

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
Landscape with Waterfall

Landscape with Waterfall (between circa 1660 and circa 1670)

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
A wooded landscape with cottages and a figure and dogs on a dirt path

A wooded landscape with cottages and a figure and dogs on a dirt path

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
Forest Path with People Strolling

Forest Path with People Strolling (ca. 1646)

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
House and Windmill on the Bank of a Canal

House and Windmill on the Bank of a Canal (ca 1650)

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
View of Naarden

View of Naarden (1647)

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
Landscape with a mill-run and ruins

Landscape with a mill-run and ruins (circa 1653)

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
Cornfield

Cornfield (1660s)

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
The Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede

The Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede (c. 1668 - c. 1670)

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
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