Two Watermills and an Open Sluice near Singraven
Two Watermills and an Open Sluice near Singraven | |
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Artist | Jacob van Ruisdael |
Year | c. 1650 |
Dimensions | 87.3 cm × 111.5 cm (34.4 in × 43.9 in) |
Location | National Gallery, London |
Two Watermills and an Open Sluice near Singraven (c. 1650) 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 National Gallery.
This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1911, who wrote; "148. THE WATER-MILLS. Sm. 17. In the left centre are two water-mills on either side of a stream flowing to the right front. The mill to the left is partly cut off by the frame and hidden by an oak tree. Between the mills are three water-wheels, two on the left and one on the right, with an open sluice-gate in the centre, through which the stream rushes down. A man stands on the footbridge above raising the gate. Behind the mill on the right is a tree. Beyond the sluice on the right bank is another house. On the left bank in front are reeds. In the right foreground is a tree-trunk in the water, with plants on the bank. A flight of steps goes up the right bank to a path up a hill, on the top of which, in the right distance, are a village church and a wind-mill amid trees. Cloudy sky. The same mills, seen from a nearer standpoint, but without the landscape on the right and with the right-hand mill in ruins, are represented in 157.
Signed in full; canvas, 34 inches by 43 1/2 inches. Sale. Thomas Emmerson, London, 1832 (504). In the collection of Wynn Ellis, 1854 (Waagen, ii. 297); bequeathed in 1876 to the National Gallery. In the National Gallery, London, Wynn Ellis bequest, 1906 catalogue, No. 986."[1]
This scene is very similar to other paintings Ruisdael made in this period of watermills and these often served as inspiration for later painters of landscape. This location has been determined to be Singraven, part of Dinkelland near Ootmarsum, subject of more paintings by Ruisdael.
Gallery
- Two Mills, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg.
- Private collection.
- Private collection.
- Same mill by Meindert Hobbema, Rijksmuseum.
- Watermills of Singraven in 2013
See also
References
- ^ Entry 148 for Two Watermills and an Open Sluice near Singraven in Hofstede de Groot, 1911
- Landschap met twee watermolens bij een sluis, vóór 1653 (Slive 2001; zie bronnen) in the RKD
- 17. View of a Watermill in Smith's catalogue raisonné volume 6, 1835
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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