Landscape with Waterfall
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Artist | Jacob van Ruisdael |
Year | 1660s |
Dimensions | 142.5 cm × 196 cm (56.1 in × 77 in) |
Location | Amsterdam Museum on loan to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Website | Amsterdam Collection online |
Landscape with Waterfall (Dutch Landschap met waterval, in de verte een kerk)[1] (c. 1660s) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum, on loan to the Rijksmuseum.
This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1911, who wrote; "198. A WATERFALL NEAR AN OAK WOOD. Sm. Suppl. 1. In the left foreground is a waterfall divided in the middle by a rock; to the left is a tree-trunk lying half in the stream. In the right foreground is a rocky bank with a birch stem bent to the right. In the right middle distance is a great oak wood, traversed by a road on which stand a man and boy conversing with a woman who sits nursing a child. To the left of the road is the stream, through which two persons apparently men drive a flock of sheep. Beyond is a wooded slope. In the centre is a view over a cornfield with sheaves; in the distance is a village with two wind-mills and a church. A fine evening, with rolling clouds and sunlight falling on the cornfield and wood. "This excellent picture, in addition to its being one of the largest works of the artist, is singularly grand and rich in its composition, combined with unusual clearness and brilliancy of colouring and the most masterly execution, justly entitling it to the appellation of a chef d'oeuvre" (Sm.).
Signed in full on a stone on the right at foot; canvas though the Amsterdam catalogue says it is on oak panel 56 inches by 76 1/2 inches. Exhibited at Amsterdam, 1845, No. 134. Bought by an ancestor of Sir Charles Blount, Bart., on the Continent about the year 1740 (Sm.). In the collection of Sir Charles Blount, Bart., who sold it to Sm. in 1836. Sold by Sm. to A. van der Hoop, Amsterdam, 1837 (for 1450). Bequeathed by A. van der Hoop to Amsterdam with his collection in 1854. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Van der Hoop bequest, 1910 catalogue, No. 2075."[2]
This scene is very similar to other paintings Ruisdael made of waterfalls. As a warning of the forces of nature, these often included logs or broken tree stumps as silent witness to a more flooded scene than the one depicted. These must have sold well, as most of what remains today of Ruisdael's oeuvre are waterfall scenes. Inspired by the dramatic works of Allaert van Everdingen, Ruisdael also made more Nordic versions (such as A Waterfall in a Rocky Landscape), which included pine trees and mountains.
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See also
References
- ^ "Explore Jacob van Ruisdael - Landschap met waterval, in de verte een kerk". Netherlands Institute for Art History. 29 November 2005. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- ^ Entry 198 for ''A Waterfall near an Oak Wood in Hofstede de Groot, 1911
- Landschap met waterval, in de verte een kerk in the RKD
- 1. A Waterfall near a Forest in Smith's catalogue raisonné supplement, volume 9, 1842
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- Landscape with a Cottage and Trees (1646)
- Landscape with a Windmill (1646)
- Wooded Dunes (1646)
- Landscape with a Windmill near a Town Moat (1650s)
- View of Bentheim Castle (1650s)
- Rough Sea at a Jetty (1650s)
- Storm Off a Sea Coast (1670)
- View of Egmond aan Zee (1650s)
- Evening Landscape: A Windmill by a Stream (unknown)
- Two Watermills and an Open Sluice near Singraven (c. 1650)
- The Jewish Cemetery (1650s)
- Two Mills (1650s)
- Dune Landscape near Haarlem (c. 1647-1653)
- Bentheim Castle (Dublin) (1653)
- Two Water Mills with an Open Sluice (1653)
- View of the Binnenamstel at Amsterdam (c. 1652-1660)
- A Thatch-Roofed House with a Water Mill (c. 1660)
- The Watermill (c. 1660)
- The Arrival of Cornelis de Graeff and Members of His Family at Soestdijk, His Country Estate (c. 1660) (with Thomas de Keyser)
- Entrance to a Forest (1660s)
- Landscape with Waterfall (1660s)
- A Waterfall in a Rocky Landscape (c. 1660)
- Winter View of the Hekelveld in Amsterdam (1660s)
- The Ray of Light (c. 1665)
- A Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Church ( c. 1665)
- A Wooded Marsh (1660s)
- Waterfall in a Mountainous Landscape with a Ruined Castle (c. 1665-1670)
- Wheat Fields (c. 1670)
- Mountainous Landscape with a Torrent (1670s)
- Winter Landscape near Haarlem (1670s)
- View of Haarlem from the Northwest, with the Bleaching Fields in the Foreground (1670s)
- Panoramic view of the Amstel looking toward Amsterdam (c. 1671-1681)
- Mountain Landscape with a Watermill (c. 1675-1679)
- View of Haarlem with Bleaching Fields (c. 1670-1675)
- Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede (c. 1670)
- View on the Amstel from Amsteldijk (c. 1680)
- View of the Dam and Damrak at Amsterdam
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