Jacob van Ruisdael
1628–1682 · Dutch · 30 artworks
BaroqueDramatic skiesDetailed foliageWatermill depictionsUse of light and shadowAtmospheric perspective
artist bio
Jacob van Ruisdael was a Dutch Golden Age painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He is considered the most important Dutch landscape painter of the 17th century, producing a wide variety of landscape scenes, from forests and fields to seascapes and cityscapes.
related: Rembrandt van Rijn
30 artworks
Road through Corn Fields near the Zuider Zee
1662
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Tower Mill at Wijk bij Duurstede, Netherlands
1670
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Landscape with a Church by a Torrent
1670
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Wheat Fields
1670
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Chapel by a Waterfall
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Rocky landscape
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Landscape with a Wheatfield
1660
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The Waterfall
1670
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Sunrise in a Wood
1682
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Farm in a wooded dune landscape
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Village at the Wood's Edge
1651
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Two Watermills and an Open Sluice
1653
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A Road through an Oak Wood
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Two Undershot Watermills with Men Opening a Sluice
1650
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Landscape with Ruined Castle and Church
1670
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The Jewish Cemetery
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Bentheim Castle
1653
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View on the Amstel from Amsteldijk
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Landscape with a Waterfall and Castle
1670
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The ford
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Landscape with ruins
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Kostverloren House on the Amstel
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A waterfall in rocky landscape
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Dünenlandschaft
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Two Watermills and an Open Sluice near Singraven
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The Shore at Egmond-an-Zee
1675
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Landscape with watermill
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The Ray of Sunlight
1660
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A Wooded Marsh
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Landscape with Waterfall
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