The Watermill (Ruisdael)

The watermill

Artist	Jacob van Ruisdael
Year	c. 1660
Dimensions	64.7 cm × 70.8 cm (25.5 in × 27.9 in)
Location	National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Website	www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/4325/

Historical painting of Jacob van Ruisdael sketching a watermill in Gelderland, by Gerard Bilders, a 19th-century landscape painter who was inspired by Ruisdael's work

The watermill (c. 1660) 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 National Gallery of Victoria.

This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1911, who wrote; "146. THE WATER-MILL. View across the mill-pool towards the water-mill, which stands amid trees. The same mill as that painted by Hobbema, as, for example, in the two pictures at the Rijksmuseum (see Hobbema, 66, 67). The building on the right is roofed with red tiles, and the timbers are grey. To the left is a green hill. There is no distant view. On the road to the left is a man, followed by a dog. To the right is a flowering elder bush. To judge from the style, the picture was probably painted about the time when Hobbema and Ruisdael worked together (1660-63). Signed with the monogram on the left ; canvas, 25 inches by 27 1/2 inches.

Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1876, No. 80, and 1902, No. 134. In the collection of the Right Hon. Lewis Fry, Clifton, Bristol. "^[1]

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

Private collection, by Jacob and formerly in the Toledo Museum of Art.
Rijksmuseum, by Hobbema.^[2]
Rijksmuseum, by Hobbema.^[3]

Scholars have tried to locate this specific watermill as it was portrayed so many times, but so far is has only been documented as being "somewhere in Gelderland."

References

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↑ Entry 146 (Ruisdael) for ''The Water-Mill in Hofstede de Groot, 1911
↑ Entry 66 (Hobbema) for ''A Water-Mill in Hofstede de Groot, 1911
↑ Entry 67 (Hobbema) for ''A Water-Mill in Hofstede de Groot, 1911

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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