''River Landscape with Ferry'' (1649) is an

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on canvas painting by the

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landscape painter

Salomon van Ruysdael Salomon van Ruysdael (c. 1602, Naarden – buried 3 November 1670, Haarlem) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. He was the uncle of Jacob van Ruisdael.

. It is an example of

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and is now in the collection of the

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in Washington D.C.. This painting was owned by

Jacques Goudstikker Jacques Goudstikker (30 August 1897 – 16 May 1940) was a Jewish Netherlands, Dutch art dealer who fled the Netherlands when it was Battle of the Netherlands, invaded by Nazi Germany during World War II, leaving three furnished properties and an ...

and was restituted to his heirs in 2006. Jacques Goudstikker was a Jewish art dealer whose works were seized and taken to Germany after his death as part of war booty. The painting was restituted to the Netherlands after the war ( RCE). It was lent by the RCE to various museums on long-term loans before being given to the

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in 1960, where it had featured in its Gallery of Honor for years. The painting was selected as one of 120 highlights in the booklet '' 120 Paintings from the Rijksmuseum''. In 2006 it was finally restituted to the Goudstikker heirs and since 2007 it has been part of the collection of the National Gallery of Art. It was part of an exhibition ''Reclaimed: paintings from the collection of Jacques Goudstikker'' in 2008.Article
on codart This scene is similar to other river landscape paintings Ruisdael made in this period and these often served as inspiration for later painters of landscape. File:Salomon van Ruisdael 002.jpg,

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, 1639 File:Rivierlandschap met een veerboot Rijksmuseum SK-C-1698.jpeg,

, 1649 File:Salomon van Ruysdael - Paisagem Fluvial com Balsa Transportando Animais.jpg,

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, c. 1650

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