Winter landscape

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Winter landscape (Jacob Isaacksz. Van Ruisdael)
Winter landscape
Jacob Isaacksz. van Ruisdael , 1665
Oil on canvas
42 x 49.7 cm
Rijksmuseum , Amsterdam

Winter landscape (Dutch: Winterlandschap ) is the title of a landscape painting by Jacob Isaacksz. van Ruisdael from 1665. It is now in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum and is one of the painter's best-known works. Van Ruisdael painted around 25 pictures with winter scenes.

description

The picture is executed in the technique of oil on canvas and has the landscape format 42 × 49.7 centimeters. At that time, after the Netherlands became independent after the occupation by Spain, there was a large market for landscape painting with idyllic motifs from all corners of the country. Ruisdael's picture shows a frozen canal in front of a dark, realistically painted cloud backdrop, a Ruisdael specialty. The gathering clouds probably indicate a snow shower soon. In front of the deep horizon of his landscapes, which is characteristic of the painter, a hill rises on top of buildings. The scenery is dominated by a towering warehouse. This building is designed as a half-timbered house . In his later years, from 1650, Ruisdael undertook trips to the east of the country and via Bentheim to western Westphalia. There he got to know the architectural style of the half-timbered houses, which he has since depicted in some of his pictures. Other buildings, such as a thatched house and a shed, appear to duck from the dramatic weather scene; a large barn on the right side of the picture, however, towers over the roofs. The smoke rising from the chimney of the house indicates that until now there has hardly been any wind. On the right edge of the picture, in front of the barn, there is a group of trees, whose compositional counterbalance is formed by two ship masts with the Dutch flag on the left edge of the picture. Five people can be seen on the ice who pursue various activities, such as ice fishing . Two birds can be seen in a bluish cloud gap above the center of the image. On the right bank of the water there are long wooden poles that are used to set gill nets . The height of the bridge connecting the two banks allows heavily loaded boats to pass. One of these boats is stuck in the ice on the right bank.

The sometimes romantic-looking motifs of a realistic but also dramatic cloud composition over a deep horizon and a towering building or other landmarks , mostly in the right half of the picture, appear more often in Ruisdael - for example as a windmill , church tower or group of trees .

Provenance

The painting first came to Noordwijk before it was offered at an auction in Rotterdam on August 3, 1811 with the number 38. The first documented owner was John Rombouts from Dordrecht . After his death in 1850, his nephew, the art collector Leendert Dupper (1799–1870), also from Dordrecht, inherited the picture. Through his legacy, it came into the possession of the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum in 1870, and it has been part of its collection ever since.

Exhibitions (selection)

The painting has been shown at numerous exhibitions:

  • Le XVIIe siècle européen from December 1956 to January 1957 in Rome.
  • 1981, Mauritshuis , in the Royal Cabinet of Paintings, The Hague
  • 1982, Fogg Art Museum , Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • 2005/2006, Holländsk Guldålder - Rembrandt, Frans Hals och deras samtida , Swedish National Museum , Stockholm
  • Winter fairy tale. Winter representations in European art from Bruegel to Breuys. from October 18, 2011 to January 8, 2012, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
  • Winter fairy tale. Winter representations in European art from Bruegel to Breuys. from February 10 to April 29, 2012 at the Kunsthaus Zurich

literature

  • Seymour Slive: Jacob Van Ruisdael. A Complete Catalog of His Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings. Yale University Press, New Haven 2001, ISBN 0-300-08972-4 , p. 469, ( books.google.de ).
  • Sabine Haag, Ronald de Leeuw, Christoph Becker, Kunsthaus Zürich, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna: Winter's Tale. Winter representations in European art from Bruegel to Beuys. An exhibition by the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien and the Kunsthaus Zürich. DuMont, Zurich / Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-8321-9393-5 , pp. 238-239.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Winterlandschap, Jacob Isaacksz. van Ruisdael, approx. 1665. In: rijksmuseum.nl. Rijksmuseum, accessed January 19, 2016 .
  2. ^ Seymour Slive: Jacob van Ruisdael - Master of Landscape. Yale University Press, 2006. ISBN 1-903973-74-0 , p. 6.
  3. ↑ Stockholm National Museum (ed.): Holländsk Guldålder - Rembrandt, Frans Hals och deras samtida. ISBN 91-7100-730-X . Stockholm 2005, p. 245 u. 323 f.
  4. ^ PC Molhuysen, PJ Blok: Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek. Volume 7. Sijthoff, Leiden 1927. ( dbnl.org ).
  5. ↑ Seymour Slive: Jacob Van Ruisdael. A Complete Catalog of His Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings. P. 469.