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Jacob van Ruisdael Sketching a Watermill
Also titled Jacob van Ruisdael, een watermolen schetsend
Gerard Bilders (Utrecht, 1838–1865)
1864
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 86.5 cm x width 61.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This painting was part of a ‘historical gallery’, a collection of paintings and sculptures glorifying Dutch art. The landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael was one of the 17th-century artists to be honoured with a painting. He is shown here out-of-doors, in the act of sketching a watermill. Bilders was clearly more skilled in painting the landscape than in rendering the figure.
