Mostly landscape and cityscape paintings. For a tag cloud of the painters see bottom of the page. Because the tag cloud allows only 45 names, all the painters are are included in the category list at bottom of the page.

Archive for October, 2011

Jacob van Ruisdael – Ashmolean Museum A982. Landscape with a Waterfall (early 1660s)

Dimensions: 49 x 42 cm. Inscriptions: Signed: JvRuisdael (JvR in monogram). Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheepdog_rex/4617689447/sizes/o/in/photostream/

Prov: Willem II; Nieuwenhuys; Sir Thomas Baring and by descent to the 2nd Earl of Northbrook.

Bequeathed by Francis Falconer Madan, 1962; WA1962.17.24.White 1999, p. 137.
One of a group of paintings of waterfalls in mountainous scenery with fir trees painted by Ruisdael in the early 1660s. The details are based on the artist’s recollections of the countryside along the Dutch-German border which he visited in about 1650 (http://www.ashmolean.org/php/makepage.php?db=wapaintings&view=llisti&all=&arti=ruisdael&titl=&mat=&prov=&sour=&acno=&park=&strt=1&what=Search&cpos=2&s1=artist&s2=mainid&s3=&dno=25).


Jan Both – Rijksmuseum SK-A-51. Italiaans landschap met de Ponte Molle (1652)

Materials: oil on copper. Dimensions: 45.5 x 58.5 cm. Acquisition date: 1809. Inscriptions: signatuur linksonder op een steen: JBoth. Nr.: SK-A-51. Source: http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/en/items/RIJK01:SK-A-51

Italiaans landschap met de Ponte Molle. Een man en een vrouw rusten hun rijdieren aan de oever. Over de weg komt een ossenwagen aangereden (http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/zoeken/asset.jsp?id=SK-A-51&lang=en).


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