Small Forest Landscape
about 1660, Artist: Jacob van Ruisdael
Small Forest Landscape
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).
Object data
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Dutch
Dated
about 1660
Artist
Jacob van Ruisdael (1628/1629 Haarlem - 1682 Amsterdam ?) - GND
Material
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
Image rights
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie
Inv. No.
Gemäldegalerie, 456
Provenance
Coll. H. v. Reith, Vienna; acquired in 1811
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