Landscape with a Windmill (Q20801653)

Label from: English (en)

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genre: landscape art (Q191163)
artist: Jacob van Ruisdael (Q213612)
collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415) Cook collection (Q74149551)
location: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415) Doughty House (Q5301115)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) panel (Q106857709)
location of final assembly: Haarlem (Q9920)
depicts: windmill (Q38720) dune (Q25391) watercourse (Q355304) tree (Q10884)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
RKDimages ID: 248226
Google Arts & Culture asset ID: awEcammgST7HVQ

catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1967.19

information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog

description: Even this early work by Jacob van Ruisdael—painted while he was still a teenager—shows his unique approach to landscape that made the simplest motifs seem grand and heroic. Dark forms are massed in the foreground, creating a stark contrast to the expansive, sunlit plain at left.

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