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Landscape with a Village in the Distance

1646
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This ambitious picture is one of nine known landscape paintings that bear the earliest date found on works by Van Ruisdael, 1646. At the time the artist was about eighteen years old. Youthful exuberance and some losses of paint and glazes combine to make the topography in the foreground somewhat unclear. However, the naturalistic description of foliage and the dramatic presentation of trees forecast the future of Holland's greatest landscape painter.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Landscape with a Village in the Distance
  • Artist: Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, Haarlem 1628/29–1682 Amsterdam)
  • Date: 1646
  • Medium: Oil on wood
  • Dimensions: 30 x 43 in. (76.2 x 109.2 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Adele L. Lehman, in memory of Arthur Lehman, 1965
  • Object Number: 65.181.10
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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