Panoramic view of the Amstel looking toward Amsterdam
Panoramic view of the Amstel looking toward Amsterdam is a 17th-century oil on canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob van Ruisdael. It is in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.[1]
The painting is catalogue number 10 in the 1911 catalogue raisonné by art historian Hofstede de Groot. He wrote "The river fills much of the right-hand side of the picture. In the centre is a road with several figures; on the river are a raft of timber and a small vessel, from which a gun is being fired. On the left are three windmills, houses, and a bleaching-ground. The town, with its many churches and public buildings, extends in the background. One may distinguish the Westerkerk, the town-hall, the Zuiderkerk, and Oude Kerk, as well as the great synagogue. The blockhouses are not shown."[2] The painting is catalogue number 3 in Seymour Slive's 2001 catalogue raisonné of Ruisdael.[1] It is object number 74 in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum.[3]
Its dimensions are 52.1 cm x 66.1 cm. It is signed in the lower left.[1] Based on the presence of certain buildings Slive estimated that the undated painting was made between 1671 and 1681.[1] Ruisdael lived in Amsterdam at that time.
The drawing that served as a preliminary study for this painting, and a similar one that is in the Philips-de Jongh Collection, is at Leipzig.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e Slive 2001, p. 16.
- ^ Hofstede de Groot 1911, p. 10.
- ^ "Panoramic view on the Amstel looking towards Amsterdam". Fitzwilliam Museum.
Bibliography
- Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis (1911). Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten Holländischen Mahler des XVII. Jahrhunderts [A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century] (in German). Vol. 4. Esslingen, Germany: Paul Neff. OCLC 2923803.
- Slive, Seymour (2001). Jacob van Ruisdael: a Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08972-1.
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- List of paintings
- 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
- Frick Collection
- Boymans van Beuningen
- Mauritshuis
- Isaack van Ruisdael (father)
- Haerlempjes