The Feast under the Maypole
1655 | Salomon van Ruysdael
Aristocrats, middle-class citizens and peasants have gathered around a maypole. Thus it is springtime, Ruysdael’s favourite season to depict. In his early pictures the painter used restrained, almost monochromatic colouration (much like Jan van Goyen, with whom he shared an artistick inship). Dated 1655, this painting demonstrates more powerful colouration as well as an interest in details related to the narrative and genre, aspects that characterise Ruysdael’s mature work.
Aristocrats, middle-class citizens and peasants have gathered around a maypole. Thus it is springtime, Ruysdael’s favourite season to depict. In his early pictures the painter used restrained, almost monochromatic colouration (much like Jan van Goyen, with whom he shared an artistick inship). Dated 1655, this painting demonstrates more powerful colouration as well as an interest in details related to the narrative and genre, aspects that characterise Ruysdael’s mature work.
Artist:
Salomon van Ruysdael (zw. 1600 und 1603 Naarden - 1670 Haarlem) DNB
Time:
1655
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Dutch
Material/technology:
Canvas
Dimensions:
91,5 cm × 121 cm
Framed: 119,4 cm × 148,5 cm × 10 cm
Signed
Inscribed at bottom left: S v RVYSDAEL 1655
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 6432
Provenance
Acquired in 1923