Paintings
Landscape with a Windmill
PaintingLandscape
Details
- Author / creator
- Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29–1682)
- Object type
- Painting
- Date or period
- 1646
- Dimensions summary
- Framed: 69 × 88.5 × 4 cm; Unframed: 49.5 × 68.5 cm
- Support
- Panel
- Paint medium
- Oil
- Place of origin
- Netherlands
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Ashcombe City Council acquisitions budget, 1967
About this object
Even this early work by Jacob van Ruisdael—painted while he was still a teenager—shows his unique approach to landscape that made the simplest motifs seem grand and heroic. Dark forms are massed in the foreground, creating a stark contrast to the expansive, sunlit plain at left.
Materials and technique
Oil on wood
Signature and marks
Signed lower right: "JvR 1646 [JvR in monogram]"
