# Mountainous Landscape near Düsseldorf

- By: Gerard van Nijmegen (Rotterdam, 1735–1808)
- Date: 1790
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 62 cm x width 89 cm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4223--a8db52bed1f3024ccf360d6275f9b9a7)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/47e85009cdf7e3bf272809ce585d0442.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This untamed view of nature anticipates picturesque features of Romanticism. Van Nijmegen, though, was also inspired by 17th-century Dutch painters, such as Jacob van Ruisdael. He had seen the subject of this painting – a landscape with ruins and drovers driving an ox-wagon over a wooden bridge – while travelling along the Rhine in 1788. He described it in his journal.