# Bentheim Castle

- By: Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael (Haarlem, ca. –1682)
- Date: 1650 - 1682
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 68 cm x width 54 cm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-347--9824cd76dc0155d058a0615a9549e9b7)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/KWwKS/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.