''A Wooded Marsh'' (c. 1660s) is an
oil on canvas painting by the
Dutch landscape painter
Jacob van Ruisdael. It is an example of
Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the collection of the
Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the list of ...
in
St. Petersburg, Russia.
This painting was documented by
Hofstede de Groot
Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (9 November 1863 – 14 April 1930), was a Dutch art collector, art historian and museum curator.
Life
He was born in Dwingeloo and spent some time in Switzerland in his youth due to weak lungs, where he learned Germa ...
in 1911, who wrote;
508. A POOL IN A WOOD. Sm. 306. A stagnant pool, overgrown with flowering water-lilies and other plants, extends from the centre of the distance to the foreground. On either side are beeches and oaks, reflected in the water. In the right foreground is a great withered oak; in front of it lies a felled beech, with the left end in the water. On the left three ducks fly into the bushes at the approach of a man who is seen in the distance. A genuine and very fine picture, but almost all the green has faded from the foliage. Signed in full on the left at foot; canvas, 29 inches by 39 1/2 inches.
Acquired by the Empress Catherine II. of Russia. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 1136; it was there in 1835 (Sm., who valued it at £450).
Entry 508 for ''Pool in a Wood''
in Hofstede de Groot, 1911
This scene is very similar to other paintings Ruisdael made in this period and these often served as inspiration for later painters of landscape.
File:Jacob Isaaksz. van Ruisdael 008.jpg, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister.
File:Jacob van Ruisdael - Wooded landscape with swans in a pond.jpg, Städel
The Städel, officially the ''Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie'', is an art museum in Frankfurt, with one of the most important collections in Germany. The Städel Museum owns 3,100 paintings, 660 sculptures, more than 4,600 ...
.
File:Jacob Isaaksz. van Ruisdael 017.jpg, Kimbell Art Museum
The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, hosts an art collection as well as traveling art exhibitions, educational programs and an extensive research library. Its initial artwork came from the private collection of Kay and Velma Kimbell, wh ...
.
References
External links
Wooded landscape with a pond with water lilies, ca. 1665
in the RKD
306. A View of a Richly-Wooded Country
in Smith's catalogue raisonné volume 6, 1835
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1660s paintings
Paintings by Jacob van Ruisdael
Paintings in the collection of the Hermitage Museum
Birds in art
Water in art