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Jacob van Ruisdael
painting of a windmill, river and large sky
Born 1628 or 1629
Haarlem
Died 10 March 1682(1682-03-10)
Amsterdam
Nationality Dutch
Known for Landscape painting
Notable work The Jewish Cemetery, Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede, View of Haarlem with Bleaching Fields
Movement Dutch Golden Age
Patron(s) Cornelis de Graeff (1599–1664)

Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael Dutch: [ˈrœysdaːl] (c.1629 – 10 March 1682) was the pre-eminent Dutch Golden Age painter of landscapes. He was prolific and versatile, depicting a wide variety of landscape subjects.

Jacob is the most famous of four family members who created landscape paintings, some of whom spelled their name Ruysdael: his well-known uncle Salomon van Ruysdael, his father Isaack van Ruisdael, and his cousin, confusingly called Jacob van Ruysdael. Attributions among the family members, as well as a wider group of Haarlem landscape painters, are uncertain as not all works are signed and dated.

During his early phase, the Haarlem years, starting in 1646, Ruisdael predominantly painted Dutch countryside scenes, of, for a teenager, remarkable quality. In 1650 he travelled to the German border and started painting monumental scenes. In his final stage, while living and working in Amsterdam, he added city panoramas and seascapes to his regular repertoire, in which the sky often took up two thirds of the canvas. Waterfalls feature often in his oeuvre. Unlike the other great Dutch landscape painters, he did not aim at a pictorial record of particular scenes, but he thought out and arranged his compositions carefully, introducing into them an infinite variety of subtle contrasts in the formation of the clouds, the plants and tree forms, and the play of light.

Only one of his pupils is known by name, the renowned Meindert Hobbema, one of several artists who painted figures in Ruisdael's landscapes, something he rarely did himself. Ruisdael is considered the most important member of the Haarlem Landscape School, a term which is used to pinpoint a group of paintings that have retained their value over the centuries, not all of which can be attributed to a specific painter, but which can be attributed to a specific style (twisted trees, windmills, waterfalls, dunescapes, seascapes, winter landscapes, and panoramas, all with and without figures painted in by others).

His work was in demand in his home country during his lifetime, and afterwards in England as well, and today it is spread across private and institutional collections globally, with the National Gallery in London, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg each holding more than a dozen of his creations. Ruisdael paved the way for the Romantic style of the late 18th century, and was influential for the Düsseldorf school of painting and Hudson River School in the 19th century.

Life[edit]

painting of a seaside town
A View of Egmond aan Zee Jacob van Ruisdael c.1650
Jacob's father's painting of the same town from same angle
A View of Egmond aan Zee Isaack van Ruisdael 1646
Jacob's uncle's painting of the same town from same angle
A View of Egmond aan Zee Salomon van Ruysdael 1640

Little is known with certainty about Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael. He was born in Haarlem in 1628 or 1629[A] into a family of painters, all landscapists. The number of painters in the family, and multiple spellings of the Ruisdael name, have hampered attempts to document his life and attribute his works. The name Ruisdael is connected to a castle, now lost, in Blaricum, where Jacob's grandfather, furniture maker Jacob de Goyer, lived. When de Goyer moved away to Naarden, three of his sons changed their name into Ruysdael or Ruisdael, probably to indicate their origin.[2][B] Two of de Goyer's sons became painters: Jacob's father Isaack van Ruisdael and his uncle Salomon van Ruysdael. Jacob himself always spelled his name with an "i".[2] His cousin, Salomon's son Jacob Salomonszoon van Ruysdael, also a landscape artist, spelled his name with a "y".[1] Jacob's earliest biographer, Arnold Houbraken, called him Jakob Ruisdaal, and claimed the name resulted from his specialty in waterfalls, namely the "ruis" (rustling noise of water) falling into a "daal" (dale) where it foams out into a pond or wider river.[3]

The earliest date that appears on Ruisdael's paintings and etchings is 1646.[4] [C] Two years later he was admitted to membership of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke.[5]

Around 1657 he moved to Amsterdam, most likely because its prosperity offered him a bigger audience. Fellow Haarlem painter Allaert van Everdingen had already moved to Amsterdam and created a market for their style. Ruisdael lived and worked in Amsterdam for the rest of his life.[6] In 1668 his name appears as a witness to the marriage of Meindert Hobbema, his only registered pupil, whose works have also been confused with his own.[7]

For a landscape artist, it seemed he travelled relatively little: to Blaricum, Egmond aan Zee, and Rhenen in the 1640s, Bentheim and Steinfurt on the border with Germany with Nicolaas Berchem in 1650,[8] and possibly with Hobbema again to the German border in 1661, via de Veluwe, Deventer en Ootmarsum.[7] Despite his numerous Norwegian landscapes, there is no record of any trip to Scandinavia.

painting of landscape with castle in background
A View of Burg Bentheim Jacob van Ruisdael 1651
Nicolaes Berchem's painting of same landscape with castle
A View of Burg Bentheim Nicolaas Berchem c.1656

It is unclear whether or not Ruisdael was also a doctor. In 1718 Houbraken reports that he studied medicine and performed surgery in Amsterdam.[3] Archival records of the 17th century show the name "Jacobus Ruijsdael" on a list of Amsterdam doctors, albeit crossed out, with the added remark that he earned his medical degree on 15 October 1676 in Caen, Northern France. Various art historians have speculated that this is a case of mistaken identity. Pieter Scheltema concluded it was Ruisdael's cousin who appeared.[9] Ruisdael expert Seymour Slive argued that the spelling "uij" is unusual for Jacob, that his phenomenal production suggests there was little time to study medicine, and that there is no indication in any of his art that he visited Northern France. Slive concluded Ruisdael may or may not have been a doctor.[10] In 2013 Jan Paul Hinrichs also decided that the evidence is inconclusive.[11]

Some have inferred from his two famous paintings of a Jewish cemetery that Ruisdael was Jewish, but once again there is no evidence to support this. He requested to be baptized at the Calvinist Reformed Church in Amsterdam, and was buried in the Saint Bavo's Church, Haarlem, also a Protestant church at that time.[12] His uncle Salomon van Ruysdael belonged to the Young Flemish subgroup of the Mennonite congregation, one of several types of Anabaptists in Haarlem, as probably did his father.[13] His cousin Jacob was a registered Mennonite in Amsterdam.[14]

Ruisdael was not married, according to Houbraken "to reserve time to serve his old father".[15]

It is not known what Ruisdael looked like, as no portrait or self-portrait of him is known.[2][D]

Hendrik Frederik Wijnman disproved the stubborn myth that Ruisdael died as a poor man, supposedly in the old men's almshouse in Haarlem. He proved that the person who died there was in fact Ruisdael's cousin, Jacob Salomonszoon.[16] Although there is no record of him owning land or shares, Ruisdael's paintings sold well and he lived comfortably, even after the economic downturn of the disaster year 1672. [E]

Ruisdael died in Amsterdam on 10 March 1682.[18] He was buried 14 March 1682 in Saint Bavo's Church, Haarlem.[7]

Work[edit]

The early years[edit]

painting of dune landscape
Dune Landscape 1646

Ruisdael's teacher is not known. It is often assumed he first studied with his father and uncle, but there is no archival evidence for this, and his early works have been confused with theirs. He was strongly influenced by other contemporary Haarlem landscapists however, most notably Cornelis Vroom, who created atmospheric, detailed landscapes, Nicolaes Berchem, a friend with whom he travelled, Allaert van Everdingen, who created Scandinavian landscapes with waterfalls, and Roelant Roghman, who created popular dramatic castle themes on hillsides.[7]

Characteristic of his early period, which dates from 1646 to early 1650s, while he was living in Haarlem, is the choice of simple motifs and the careful and laborious study of the details of nature: dunes, woods, fresh atmospheric effects, and, through heavier paint than his predecessors, foliage with a rich quality that give the sense of sap flowing through its branches and leaves.[19] His early sketches introduce motifs which return later: spaciousness, luminosity and an airy atmosphere achieved through pointillist-like touches of chalk.[20]

An exemplar of his style is Dune Landscape, one of his earliest works, dated 1646, which breaks with the classic Dutch tradition of depicting broad views of dunes that include houses and trees flanked by distant vistas. Instead, he puts the dune with trees prominently centre stage, with the cloudscape cleverly concentrating strong light on the sandy path.[20] The canvasses of early work like this are remarkably large for an inexperienced painter.[21] As art historian Hofstede de Groot noted of Wooded Dune dated 1646, "it is hardly credible that it should be the work of a boy of seventeen".[22]

painting of a city in the distance under a big sky
View of Naarden 1647

His first panoramic landscape dates from 1647, called View of Naarden. The theme of overwhelming sky and a distant town, in this case the birthplace of his father, is one he returned to in his later years.[20]

The year 1653 marks a salient point for art historians, as for reasons unknown, Ruisdael almost entirely stops dating his work from this point. Only five works from the 1660s have a, partially obscured, year next to his signature; none from the 1670s and 1680s.[23] Dating subsequent work has therefore been largely based on detective work and speculation.[24]

Ruisdael etched a few plates, thirteen according to the latest catalogue raisonné by Slive, which he evidently regarded as experimental and somewhat private, to judge by their extreme rarity - about half survive in only a single impression. None are dated after 1655. Many have very crowded compositions of foliage.[25] The Cornfield and The Travellers were characterized by etching expert Georges Duplessis as unrivalled illustrations of his noble genius.[26]

The middle period[edit]

dark painting of ruins and tombs
The Jewish Cemetery c.1654–55

Following his travels, which helped him gain a broader view of nature and widened the horizon of his art, new monumental effects started to appear in his paintings. A magnificent view of Bentheim Castle, dated 1654, is just one of a dozen of his depictions of this castle in Germany. The ruins of Egmont Castle near Alkmaar were another favourite subject and feature in The Jewish Cemetery, of which he painted two versions.[27] Ruisdael pits the natural world against the built environment, which has been overrun by the trees and shrubs surrounding the cemetery.

painting of mountains, waterfalls and castle
Waterfall in a Mountainous Landscape with a Ruined Castle c.1665–1670

Indisputable proof of Ruisdael's extraordinary creative power is offered by his Scandinavian waterfall paintings. He never went to Scandinavia, but fellow Haarlem painter van Everdingen had. Ruisdael soon outstripped van Everdingen's finest efforts, in the end producing 160 works featuring waterfalls, of which Waterfall in a Mountainous Landscape with a Ruined Castle, c.1665–1670, is seen as his grandest.[28]

Ruisdael started painting coastal scenes and sea-pieces, influenced by Cornelis Vroom, Simon de Vlieger and Jan Porcellis.[7] Among the most dramatic is Rough Sea at a Jetty, with a remarkably restricted palette of only black, white, blue and a few brown earth colours.[28] The prevailing hue of his landscapes is a full rich green, which, has darkened with time, while a clear grey tone is characteristic of his seascapes.

The later years[edit]

painting of woods, mountains and a river
Mountainous and Wooded Landscape with a River c.1678

During his last period dominating mountain scenes appear, such as Mountainous and Wooded Landscape with a River, dateable to the late 1670s, portraying a rugged range as lofty as the Alps, with the highest peak in the clouds.[29] By now, Ruisdael's subjects are unusually varied, from his favourite woodland scenes, to waterfalls, dunes, beach scenes and seascapes, to panoramas of distant cities. Art historian Wolfgang Stechow identified 13 themes within the landscape genre and Ruisdael's work covers 11 of them, excelling at most.[30] [31]

Unsurprisingly, a typical Dutch landscape with a windmill is one of Ruisdael's most famous works. Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede, dated 1670, shows Wijk bij Duurstede, a riverside town about 20 kilometers from Utrecht, with a dominant cylindrical windmill, harmonised by the lines of river bank and sails, with the contrasts between light and shadow working together with the intensified concentration of mass and space.[29] Its enduring popularity is evidenced by card sales in the Rijksmuseum, with the Windmill ranking third after Rembrandt's Night Watch and Vermeer's View of Delft.[24]

Various panoramic views of the Haarlem skyline and its bleaching grounds appear at this stage, a specific genre we now call Haerlempjes, with the clouds controlling the various gradations of alternating bands of light and shadow towards the horizon, often dominated by the St. Bavo Church, in which Ruisdael would one day be buried.[29]

While the city of Amsterdam does feature in his work, it does so relatively rarely for someone who lived there for over 25 years.[32] It does feature in his only architectural subject known: an admirable interior of the New Church, as well as in views of the Dam, and his Panoramic View of the Amstel Looking towards Amsterdam.

Figures are sparingly introduced into his compositions, and are by this period no longer of his own hand[F] but executed by various artists, including his pupil Meindert Hobbema, Nicolaes Berchem, Adriaen van de Velde, Philip Wouwerman, Jan Vonck, Thomas de Keyser and Jan Lingelbach.[7]

The art of Ruisdael, while it shows little of the scientific knowledge of later landscapists, is sensitive and poetic in sentiment, and direct and skillful in technique. Unlike the other great Dutch landscape painters, Ruisdael did not aim at a pictorial record of particular scenes, but carefully thought out and arranged his compositions, introducing into them an infinite variety of subtle contrasts in the formation of the clouds, the plants and tree forms, and the play of light.

Attributions[edit]

signature on a painting reading J v Ruisdael

Slive attributes 694 paintings to Ruisdael and lists another 163 paintings with dubious or wrong attribution.[34] [G] There are three main reasons why there is uncertainty over whose hand has painted various Ruisdael-style landscapes. Firstly, four members of the Ruysdael family were landscapists. Secondly, many works from what is now called the Haarlem Landscape School of Painting were unsigned. The works that do have a signature typically read "JvRuisdael" or "JVR". Thirdly, it seemed that sometimes two artists would work together on one painting, not only by one adding small figures to the landscapes of the other, but more prominent figures as well, such as in Cornelis de Graeff and his wife and sons arrive at their country house Soestdijk, complete with horses and carriage, currently attributed to Thomas de Keyser and Ruisdael. Unlike the forensic science put into finding the correct attributions of Rembrandt's paintings, through the Rembrandt Research Project, there is no large-scale systematic approach to ascertain Ruisdael's attributions.

Legacy[edit]

painting of windmills
Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem Jacob van Ruisdael 1651
similar painting with windmills
Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem John Constable 1830

Ruisdael remained an esteemed artist after his death. A record from 1687 shows a merchant to possess a waterfall painting "in the style of Ruisdael". Houbraken tells of a certain Jan Griffier the Elder who could imitate Ruisdael's style so well that he often sold them for real Ruisdaels, especially with figurines added in the style of Philip Wouwerman.[36] Ruisdael's work shows some of the sensibilities the Romantics would later celebrate. Among the English artists influenced by Ruisdael are Thomas Gainsborough, J. M. W. Turner, and John Constable. Gainsborough drew, in black chalk and grey wash, a replica of a Ruisdael in the 1740s—now both in the Louvre in Paris.[37] Constable also copied various Ruisdaels as acts of homage.[38] "It haunts my mind and clings to my heart", he wrote after seeing a Ruisdael.[39] But he thought the Jewish Cemetery was a failure, because it attempts to tell that which is outside the reach of art.[38]

In the 19th century Ruisdael was an influence on the Düsseldorf School of Painting[40] and Hudson River School, for instance Thomas Doughty.[41] Vincent van Gogh acknowledged Ruisdael as a major influence, calling him sublime, but at the same time saying it would be a mistake to try and copy him.[42] He had two Ruisdael prints, The Bush and The Bleeching Fields, up on his wall,[43] and thought the Ruisdaels in the Louvre were "magnificent, especially The Bush, The Breakwater and The Ray of Sunlight".[44] His experience of the French countryside was informed by his memory of Ruisdael's art.[45] Van Gogh's contemporary Claude Monet is also said to owe Ruisdael very much.[46] Even Piet Mondriaan's minimalism has been traced back to Ruisdael's panoramas.[46]

painting of river landscape with mountain
The Ray of Light Jacob van Ruisdael c.1665
similar painting of river landscape
Landscape after Ruisdael Thomas Doughty c.1846

Among art critics, Ruisdael's reception has not much changed over the centuries. The first account, in 1718, is from Houbraken, who waxed lyrical over the technical mastery which allowed him to realistically depict water in waterfalls and the sea.[47] Soon afterwards English art critics began to sing his praises, but not all of them. In 1801, Henry Fuseli, professor at the Royal Academy, expressed his contempt for the entire Dutch School of Landscape, dismissing it as no more than a "transcript of the spot", a mere "enumeration of hill and dale, clumps of trees".[48] Of note is that one of Fuseli's students was Constable, whose admiration for Ruisdael remained unchanged.[49] Around the same time in Germany, the writer, statesman and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lauded Ruisdael as a poet among painters, saying "he demonstrates remarkable skill in locating the exact point at which the creative faculty comes into contact with a lucid mind".[50] In 1911, Dutch art historian Abraham Bredius also called his compatriot not so much a painter as a poet.[51]

Modern-day critics also rate Ruisdael highly. Kenneth Clark called him "the greatest master of the natural vision before Constable".[52] Waldemar Januszczak finds him a marvellous storyteller. He does not rate Ruisdael the greatest landscape artist of all time, but is especially impressed by his works as a teenager: "a prodigy whom we should rank at number 8 or 9 on the Mozart scale".[46] He is considered the most important member of the Haarlem Landscape School,[53] which is used to pinpoint a group of paintings that have retained their value over the centuries, not all of which can be attributed to a specific painter, but which can be attributed to a specific style (twisted trees, windmills, waterfalls, dunescapes, seascapes, winter landscapes, and panoramas, all with and without figures painted in by others).

Although many of Ruisdael's works were on show in the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester 1857, and various other grand exhibitions across the world subsequently, it was not until 1981 that an exhibition was solely dedicated to Ruisdael. Over fifty paintings and thirtyfive drawings and etches were exhibited, first at the Mauritshuis in the Hague, then, in 1982, at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[37] In 2006, the Royal Academy in London hosted a Ruisdael Master of Landscape exhibition, displaying works from over fifty collections.[54]

Interpretation[edit]

painting of dead tree
Landscape with Dead Tree and Oncoming Storm c.1649

There are no 17th century documents that show us first or second hand what Ruisdael intended to convey with his art.[2] Records of how scholars have interpreted Ruisdael's landscapes date back to the 18th century. Whilst the meaning of The Jewish Cemetery is universally accepted as being an allegory for the fragility of life,[38] [55] [56] how other works should be interpreted is much disputed. At one end of the spectrum is Royal Academy professor Henry Fuseli, saying they have no meaning at all, and are simply a depiction of nature.[48] At the other end is Franz Theodor Kugler who sees meaning in almost everything: "They all display the silent power of Nature, who opposes with her mighty hand the petty activity of man, and with a solemn warning as it were, repels his encroachments".[57] In the middle are scholars such as E. John Walford who sees the works as "not so much bearers of narrative or emblematic meanings but rather as images reflecting the fact that the visible world was essentially perceived as manifesting inherent spiritual significance".[58] Walford advocates abandoning the notion of 'disguised symbolism'.[59] All of Ruisdael's work can be interpreted according to the religious world view of his time: nature serves as the ‘first book’ of God, both because of its inherent divine qualities and because of God’s obvious concern for man and the world. The interpretation is spiritual, not moral.[60] Ruisdael's oeuvre is laden with looming clouds, dead trees, the play of light and shadow, and other elements that are easy to identify as spiritual or moral symbols. Andrew Graham-Dixon says all Dutch Golden Age landscapists couldn't help but search everywhere for meaning. He says of the windmill in The Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede that it symbolises "the sheer hard work needed to keep Holland above water and to safeguard the future of the nation's children". The symmetries in the landscapes are "reminders to fellow citizens always to remain on the straight and narrow".[61] Seymour Slive is more reluctant to read too much into the work, but does put The Windmill in its contemporary religious context of man's dependence on the "spirit of the Lord for life".[62]

Collections[edit]

painting of sea, dunes and sky
Dunes by the Sea 1648

Ruisdaels are scattered across collections globally, private and institutional. The most notable collections are at the National Gallery in London, which holds twenty of his paintings;[63] the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which holds sixteen paintings;[64] and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, which holds nine.[65] In the US, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has five paintings in its collection,[66] the J. Paul Getty Museum in California three.[67]

On occasion a Ruisdael changes hands. Most recently, in 2014, Dunes by the Sea was auctioned at Christies in New York and realised a price of $1,805,000.[68]

Of his surviving drawings, a little over a hundred in total, the largest collection is at the Rijksmuseum print room in Amsterdam. The Hermitage possesses eight drawings, ranging in date from 1640s to 1670.[69]

Context[edit]

Ruisdael and his artworks should not be considered apart from the context of the incredible wealth and significant changes to the land that occurred during the Dutch Golden Age. In his landmark study on 17th-century Dutch art and culture, Simon Schama remarks that "it can never be overemphasized that the period between 1550 and 1650, when the political identity of an independent Netherlands nation was being established, was also a time of dramatic physical alteration of its landscape".[70] Ruisdael's depiction of nature and emergent Dutch technology are wrapped up in this national anxiety.

Yuri Kuznetsov puts Ruisdael's art in the context of the independence war against Spain. Dutch landscape painters "were called upon to make a portrait of their homeland, twice rewon by the Dutch people - first from the sea and later from foreign invaders".[71]

Jonathan Israel, in his study of the Dutch Republic, states that the period between 1647 and 1672 coincides with the third phase of Dutch Golden Age art, in which the audience, consisting of wealthy merchants and cities, wanted large, opulent and refined paintings. For town halls there now was a demand for grand displays with a republican message.[72]

Christopher Joby puts Ruisdael in the religious context of Calvinism in the Dutch Republic. "Landscape painting does conform to Calvin's requirement that only what is visible may be depicted in art, and stated that landscape paintings such as those of Ruisdael have an epistemological value which provides further support for their use within Reformed Churches".[73]

Notable paintings[edit]

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Rough Sea at a Jetty 1650s Kimbell Art Museum AP 1989.01
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Bentheim Castle 1650s Rijksmuseum SK-A-347
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View of Egmond aan Zee 1650 Nationalmuseum NM 618
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Two Watermills and an Open Sluice near Singraven 1650 National Gallery NG986
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The watermill 1660 National Gallery of Victoria 1249-3
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The Jewish Cemetery 1660 Detroit Institute of Arts 26.3
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A Waterfall in a Rocky Landscape 1660 National Gallery NG627
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The Ray of Light 1665 Department of Paintings of the Louvre INV 1820
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A Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Church 1665 National Gallery NG990
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A Wooded Marsh 1665
1660s
Hermitage Museum 934
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Landscape with Waterfall 1668 Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam Museum
SK-C-210
SA 8297
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Winter Landscape near Haarlem 1670s Städel 1109
View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds c1665 Ruisdael.jpg
View of Haarlem with bleaching fields 1670 Kunsthaus Zürich
De molen bij Wijk bij Duurstede Rijksmuseum SK-C-211.jpeg
The Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede 1670 Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam Museum
SK-C-211
SA 8296
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View on the Amstel from Amsteldijk 1680 Amsterdam Museum SA 56435
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Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ This is inferred from a document dated 9 June 1661 in which Ruisdael states to be 32 years old.[1]
  2. ^ While in modern Dutch the "uy" spelling is only preserved in names and the "ui" is dominant, before modern spelling regulations the "uy" was spelled interchangeably with "uij", with "ij" in combination just being another way to represent "y", and "ui" being shorthand for "uij". For a list of common spellings of the Ruisdael name over the centuries, see his ULAN entry.
  3. ^ It was unusual that signed and dated works of an artist were created before matriculation in a guild.
  4. ^ The Dutch coffee and tea company De Zuid-Hollandsche Koffie- en Theehandel published picture books in the 1920s with portraits of famous figures from Dutch history and the 1926 edition showed a portrait of "Jacob Isaaksz. Ruisdael" (sic). It is not known where the coffee and tea company got the image from. Two 19th century sculptures, one on the outside wall of the Hamburger Kunsthalle built in 1863, and one inside the Louvre made by Louis-Denis Caillouette in 1822, are also not traceable back to a source.
  5. ^ Tax records show Ruisdael paid 10 guilders for the 0.5% wealth tax in 1674, indicating his net worth was 2,000 guilders.[17]
  6. ^ In the past it was assumed that Ruisdael never painted figures himself. More recently though it is assumed that in his early years he did do so himself.[21] Landscape with Hut of 1646 is one such example.[33]
  7. ^ Hofstede de Groot felt the problem of attribution first hand in 1911, when catalog number 60 in his catalogue raisonné of Ruisdael was judged not to be authentic, causing a last minute footnote before going to press.[35]

References[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b Slive & Hoetink 1981, p. 19.
  2. ^ a b c d Slive & Hoetink 1981, p. 17.
  3. ^ a b Houbraken 1718, p. 65.
  4. ^ Slive 2001, p. 5.
  5. ^ Slive 2011, p. xi.
  6. ^ Slive & Hoetink 1981, p. 22.
  7. ^ a b c d e f "Jacob van Ruisdael in the RKD". rkd.nl. Retrieved 8 October 2015. 
  8. ^ Kuznetsov 1983, p. 4.
  9. ^ Scheltema 1872, p. 105.
  10. ^ Slive & Hoetink 1981, p. 19-20.
  11. ^ Hinrichs 2013, pp. 58-62.
  12. ^ Wecker, Menachem (21 October 2005). "Jacob van Ruisdael is not Jewish". Forward. Retrieved 8 September 2015. 
  13. ^ Israel 1985, p. 397.
  14. ^ Scheltema 1872, p. 101.
  15. ^ Houbraken 1718.
  16. ^ Wijnman 1932, p. 49-60;173-181;258-275.
  17. ^ Slive & Hoetink 1981, p. 26.
  18. ^ Slive 1991, p. 598-606.
  19. ^ Slive 2006, p. 1.
  20. ^ a b c Slive 2006, p. 2.
  21. ^ a b Howard 1988, p. 63.
  22. ^ Hofstede de Groot 1911, p. 275.
  23. ^ Slive 2001, p. 6.
  24. ^ a b Slive & Hoetink 1981, p. 21.
  25. ^ Slive 2001, p. 593.
  26. ^ Duplessis 1871, p. 109.
  27. ^ Slive 2006, p. 3.
  28. ^ a b Slive 2006, p. 4.
  29. ^ a b c Slive 2006, p. 5.
  30. ^ Stechow 1966.
  31. ^ Slive & Hoetink 1981, p. 16.
  32. ^ Slive 2001, p. 11.
  33. ^ Slive & Hoetink 1981, p. 29.
  34. ^ Slive 2001, p. contents.
  35. ^ Hofstede de Groot 1911, p. 3.
  36. ^ Slive & Hoetink 1981, p. 23.
  37. ^ a b Slive & Hoetink 1981, p. 13.
  38. ^ a b c Slive 2001, p. 181.
  39. ^ Slive & Hoetink 1981, p. 0.
  40. ^ Lenman, p. 68.
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