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Landscape with Waterfall
Also titled Landschap met waterval
Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael (Haarlem, ca. –1682)
c. 1668
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 142.5 cm x width 196 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)
- 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
The tiny figures in this grand landscape with a rushing waterfall are almost lost. The composition is dominated by gnarled trees, barren tree trunks, and roiling water. The dramatic cycle of nature’s birth and decay is almost tangible. A church tower rises up in the distance like a beacon of peace.
