Landscape with a Village in the Distance
Jacob van Ruisdael
1646 · Oil on wood · European Paintings
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.
- Artist
- Jacob van Ruisdael
- Date
- 1646
- Medium
- Oil on wood
- Department
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Adele L. Lehman, in memory of Arthur Lehman, 1965
