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View of Haarlem from the Northwest, with the Bleaching Fields in the Foreground
Also titled Gezicht op Haarlem uit het noordwesten, met de blekerijen op de voorgrond
Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael (Haarlem, ca. –1682)
c. 1650 - c. 1682
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 43 cm x width 38 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Dupper Wzn. Bequest, Dordrecht
- 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
Foreigners experience the flat Dutch landscape as having a straight, low horizon extending under a vast sky with billowing cumulus clouds. This is how Ruisdael painted the Haarlem skyline in the distance, recognizable by the high roof of St Bavo’s. Lengths of cloth bleaching in the sun lie at the foot of the dunes in the foreground. The Haarlem linen industry relied on the pure dune water.
