Grainfields

Jacob van Ruisdael

mid- or late 1660s · Oil on canvas · European Paintings

This canvas of the mid- to late 1660s depicts a road through grainfields and, in the distance, a village church. Contemporary viewers would have understood immediately the relationships between the rainclouds, the fields, and the mill. The finely detailed painting was owned by the English painter Sir Joshua Reynolds between 1756 and his death in 1792.

Artist

Jacob van Ruisdael

Date

mid- or late 1660s

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931