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Entrance To A Forest
''Entrance to a Forest'' is a 1660s landscape painting by the Dutch Republic, Dutch artist Jacob van Ruisdael. It today belongs to the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse, Musée des Beaux-Arts of Mulhouse, France. Its inventory number is D.58.1.82. The painting is catalogued as number 384 in the complete catalogue established by Seymour Slive in 2001. Slive describes it as "now obscured by dark, yellowed varnish and grime"; it has been cleaned up since. See also * List of paintings by Jacob van Ruisdael References {{17C-painting-stub 1660s paintings Paintings in Alsace Paintings by Jacob van Ruisdael Oil on canvas paintings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Van Ruisdael
Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael (; 1629 – 10 March 1682) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He is generally considered the pre-eminent landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, a period of great wealth and cultural achievement when Dutch painting became highly popular. Prolific and versatile, Ruisdael depicted a wide variety of landscape subjects. From 1646 he painted Dutch countryside scenes of remarkable quality for a young man. After a trip to Germany in 1650, his landscapes took on a more heroic character. In his late work, conducted when he lived and worked in Amsterdam, he added city panoramas and seascapes to his regular repertoire. In these, the sky often took up two-thirds of the canvas. In total he produced more than 150 Scandinavian views featuring waterfalls. Ruisdael's only registered pupil was Meindert Hobbema, one of several artists who painted figures in his landscapes. Hobbema's work has at times been confused with Ruisdael's. Ruisdael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
