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Small Forest Landscape

about 1660 | Jacob van Ruisdael

With their mixture of “natural” motifs and supreme composition, Ruisdael’s works had a lasting effect on the development of landscape painting all the way to early Impressionism. Carefully planned zones of light and shadow give this entirely unspectacular landscape breadth and depth and also lend impressive volume to the trees and clouds (c.f. Ruisdael’s “The Great Forest”, Inv. No. GG 426).

With their mixture of “natural” motifs and supreme composition, Ruisdael’s works had a lasting effect on the development of landscape painting all the way to early Impressionism. Carefully planned zones of light and shadow give this entirely unspectacular landscape breadth and depth and also lend impressive volume to the trees and clouds (c.f. Ruisdael’s “The Great Forest”, Inv. No. GG 426).

Artist:
Jacob van Ruisdael (1628/1629 Haarlem - 1682 Amsterdam ?) DNB

Time:
about 1660

Object Name
Painting

Culture
Dutch

Material/technology:
oak wood

Dimensions:
22,8 cm × 29,8 cm
Framed: 38 cm × 44,7 cm × 5 cm

Signed
Inscribed with the monogram at lower right: J v R

Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie

Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 456

Provenance
Coll. H. v. Reith, Vienna; acquired in 1811

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