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A broken white and gray birch tree trunk has fallen across a rocky, shallow waterfall at the edge of a dense, deeply shadowed forest in this horizontal landscape painting. The narrow stream winds toward us from the forest to splash into a rocky pool that nearly spans the width of the painting along the bottom edge. The tree trunk angles from our right down into the pool, having lost most of its branches. Broken off near the base, the gnarled roots of the tree dig into a rocky outcropping along the right edge of the composition. Farther back and tiny in scale, two people walk along the…

Forest Scene

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, c. 1628/1629 - 1682)

c. 1655 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Widener Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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