# Bosgezicht

- By: Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael (Haarlem, ca. –1682)
- Date: 1653
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: depth 10.6 cm
- Credit line: Dupper Wzn. Bequest, Dordrecht
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-350--d3894a8822f2a287deff64ff32c70e44)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/CNGHz/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)

Until the 1650s, Ruisdael’s landscapes were marked by dense groves. He was partial to gnarled, distinctive trees. Here, we see pollard willows at the right, and oaks next to them. The left foreground features a blooming lilac lining the path on which a herdsman drives his cattle. Ruisdael created depth by placing in the right foreground a bare pollard willow, accentuated by the erratic shape of its trunk and colour of its bark.