Bentheim Castle
Also titled Kasteel Bentheim
Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael (Haarlem, ca. –1682)
1650 - 1682
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 68 cm x width 54 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Bentheim Castle still exists. It is located on the German–Dutch border region, but the high mountains Ruisdael depicted in this painting are not found there. Fantasy and reality are interwoven in this scene. The painter made a dozen paintings of this castle, each with a different mountain landscape. In 1861, Goethe, the famous German writer, rightly called Ruisdael a poet.
