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The Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede
Also titled De molen bij Wijk bij Duurstede
Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael (Haarlem, ca. –1682)
c. 1668 - c. 1670
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 83 cm x width 101 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 windmill rises up majestically, defying the dark rain clouds and overshadowing the castle and the church of Wijk bij Duurstede. The River Lek flows in the foreground. This painting is world famous, and rightly so. In this impressive composition, Ruisdael united all the typical Dutch elements – the low-lying land, the water and the expansive sky – manipulating them to converge on the equally characteristic Dutch mill.
