Mountain Landscape with a Watermill

Mountainous Landscape

Artist	Jacob van Ruisdael
Year	late 1660s
Type	landscape painting
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	99.5 cm × 137 cm (39.2 in × 54 in)
Location	Hermitage, Saint Petersburg
Website	Hermitage online

Mountainous Landscape (c. 1675-1679) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the collection of the Hermitage.

This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1911, who wrote; "155. A WATER-MILL IN A NORWEGIAN LANDSCAPE. Sm. 307. A dark rocky landscape is intersected by a river, on which are a raft of timber and a small sailing-boat. To the right, on the farther bank, are a cottage, a pile of timber, and a mill. Near the centre is a castle on a rocky hill. Farther to the left in the distance is a lofty conical hill, the top of which is hidden in cloud. One of Ruisdael's most important pictures. Probably an evening effect, but very much darkened by time. Attributed in the 1838 catalogue to Salomon van Ruisdael. Canvas, 40 inches by 43 inches. Engraved by P. E. Moitte in the Brühl collection. In the collection of Count Brühl. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 1147; it was there in 1835 (Sm., who valued it at £300)."^[1]

This scene is very similar to other paintings Ruisdael made in this period and these often served as inspiration for later painters of landscape.

References

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↑ Entry 155 for ''A Water-Mill in a Norwegian Landscape in Hofstede de Groot, 1911

Mountainous landscape with a watermill, late jaren 1670 in the RKD
307. A Raft and Watermill in Smith's catalogue raisonné volume 6, 1835

Works by Jacob van Ruisdael

List of paintings

Paintings	Wooded Dunes Landscape with a Cottage and Trees View of Bentheim Castle Rough Sea at a Jetty Storm Off a Sea Coast Landscape with a Windmill near a Town Moat View of Egmond aan Zee Two Watermills and an Open Sluice near Singraven Dune Landscape near Haarlem Bentheim Castle (Dublin) Two Water Mills with an Open Sluice View of the Binnenamstel at Amsterdam A Thatch-Roofed House with a Water Mill The Watermill The Arrival of Cornelis de Graeff and Members of His Family at Soestdijk, His Country Estate A Waterfall in a Rocky Landscape The Jewish Cemetery The Ray of Light A Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Church A Wooded Marsh Waterfall in a Mountainous Landscape with a Ruined Castle Landscape with Waterfall View of Haarlem from the Northwest, with the Bleaching Fields in the Foreground View of the Dam and Damrak at Amsterdam Frick Collection Boymans van Beuningen Mauritshuis Panoramic view of the Amstel looking toward Amsterdam¨ Mountain Landscape with a Watermill Winter Landscape near Haarlem Winter View of the Hekelveld in Amsterdam View of Haarlem with Bleaching Fields Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede View on the Amstel from Amsteldijk

Etchings	Grainfield at the Edge of a Wood Forest Marsh with Travellers on a Bank

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