Landscape with a Windmill
1646
Jacob van Ruisdael
Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29–1682)
European Painting and Sculpture
Landscape with a Windmill
, 1646. Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29–1682). Oil on wood; framed: 69 x 88.5 x 4 cm (27 3/16 x 34 13/16 x 1 9/16 in.); unframed: 49.5 x 68.5 cm (19 1/2 x 26 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1967.19 Look closely at the field across from the windmill: white linens are naturally bleached in the sun, a process that would have taken several months.
- Maker/Artist
- Ruisdael, Jacob van
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- Framed: 69 x 88.5 x 4 cm (27 3/16 x 34 13/16 x 1 9/16 in.); Unframed: 49.5 x 68.5 cm (19 1/2 x 26 15/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed lower right: "JvR 1646 [JvR in monogram]"
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1967.19
- Credit Line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1967, Master of Landscape: Jacob van Ruisdael's Paintings, Drawings and Etchings, The Discovery of Landscape: Netherlandish Landscape Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries, Manchester, City Art Gallery, 1964-66 (on extended loan).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 213 Dutch Painting
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