Landscape with a Cottage and Trees
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Landscape with a Cottage and Trees (1646) is an oil-on-panel painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob van Ruisdael. It is in the collection of the Kunsthalle in Hamburg.[1]
The painting shows a landscape near the dunes, with a modest cottage and a derelict shed, amidst dense vegetation. The people do not take centre stage; nature does.[2]
This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1911, who wrote; "806. LANDSCAPE WITH A COTTAGE. In front of the cottage is a herdsman with cows, pigs, and other animals. To the right is a tree stripped of its bark. On a sheet of water near it are ducks. Sunlight falls on the trees in the left distance. The figures, which are highly finished and prominent, are by Berchem. Signed in full, and dated 1646; panel, 281/2 inches by 44 inches.[3] In the collection of J. Amsinck, Hamburg, bequeathed to the Kunsthalle, 1879."[4]
This work is one of the earliest known Ruisdaels. He was only a teenager when he created it.[2] Art historian Seymour Slive attributes the staffage to the hand of Ruisdael himself, though Hofstede de Groot attributed the staffage to the hand of Nicolaes Berchem.[2] The painting is catalogue number 569 in Slive's 2001 catalogue raisonne of Ruisdael.[5]
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References
Notes
- ^ Slive & Hoetink 1981, p. 28.
- ^ a b c Slive & Hoetink 1981, p. 29.
- ^ The dimensions are 71.8 × 101 cm.Slive & Hoetink 1981, p. 28
- ^ Entry 806 for ''Landscape with a Cottage and Trees in Hofstede de Groot, 1911
- ^ Slive 2001, p. 412.
- Dune landscape with a willow, 1646 gedateerd in the RKD
Bibliography
- Slive, Seymour; Hoetink, Hendrik Richard (1981). Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch ed.). Amsterdam: Meulenhoff/Landshoff. ISBN 978-90-290-8471-0.
- Slive, Seymour (2001). Jacob van Ruisdael: a Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08972-1.
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- List of paintings
- Landscape with a Cottage and Trees (1646)
- Landscape with a Windmill (1646)
- Wooded Dunes (1646)
- Landscape with a Windmill near a Town Moat (1650s)
- View of Bentheim Castle (1650s)
- Rough Sea at a Jetty (1650s)
- Storm Off a Sea Coast (1670)
- View of Egmond aan Zee (1650s)
- Evening Landscape: A Windmill by a Stream (unknown)
- Two Watermills and an Open Sluice near Singraven (c. 1650)
- The Jewish Cemetery (1650s)
- Two Mills (1650s)
- Dune Landscape near Haarlem (c. 1647-1653)
- Bentheim Castle (Dublin) (1653)
- Two Water Mills with an Open Sluice (1653)
- View of the Binnenamstel at Amsterdam (c. 1652-1660)
- A Thatch-Roofed House with a Water Mill (c. 1660)
- The Watermill (c. 1660)
- The Arrival of Cornelis de Graeff and Members of His Family at Soestdijk, His Country Estate (c. 1660) (with Thomas de Keyser)
- Entrance to a Forest (1660s)
- Landscape with Waterfall (1660s)
- A Waterfall in a Rocky Landscape (c. 1660)
- Winter View of the Hekelveld in Amsterdam (1660s)
- The Ray of Light (c. 1665)
- A Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Church ( c. 1665)
- A Wooded Marsh (1660s)
- Waterfall in a Mountainous Landscape with a Ruined Castle (c. 1665-1670)
- Wheat Fields (c. 1670)
- Mountainous Landscape with a Torrent (1670s)
- Winter Landscape near Haarlem (1670s)
- View of Haarlem from the Northwest, with the Bleaching Fields in the Foreground (1670s)
- Panoramic view of the Amstel looking toward Amsterdam (c. 1671-1681)
- Mountain Landscape with a Watermill (c. 1675-1679)
- View of Haarlem with Bleaching Fields (c. 1670-1675)
- Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede (c. 1670)
- View on the Amstel from Amsteldijk (c. 1680)
- View of the Dam and Damrak at Amsterdam
- Frick Collection
- Boymans van Beuningen
- Mauritshuis
- Isaack van Ruisdael (father)
- Haerlempjes
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