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Jacob van Ruisdael - Landscape with a cottage and stone bridge under a cloudy sky

Landscape with a cottage and stone bridge under a cloudy sky

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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Landscape with cornfields and a thatched barn

Landscape with cornfields and a thatched barn

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

Landscape with Cascade

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
House among Trees, at Right Man and Dog on a Footbridge

House among Trees, at Right Man and Dog on a Footbridge (17th century)

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

Canal with Bridge

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

Grainfields (1660s)

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
Small section of a tree with a fence

Small section of a tree with a fence

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

Wheat Fields (ca. 1670)

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
Wooden Marsh Landscape with Dead Tree

Wooden Marsh Landscape with Dead Tree (1665)

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
Windmühle am Wasser, vorne zwei Kähne

Windmühle am Wasser, vorne zwei Kähne

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
Farm and Hayrick on a River

Farm and Hayrick on a River (late 1640s)

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 (c.1665)

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
View from the Coast of Norway

View from the Coast of Norway (circa 1660)

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

Landscape with Waterfall (c. 1668)

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

Landscape with Dunes (1649)

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