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Jacob van Ruisdael
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Ruisdael, Jacob van: Waterfall with a Low Wooded Hill Ruisdael, Jacob van: Waterfall with Bentheim Castle Beyond Ruisdael, Jacob van: Wheat Fields Plate 14: “Waterfall,” oil painting by Jacob van Ruisdael, c. 1670? In the Uffizi, Florence. 52.3 x 61.7 cm.
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Jacob van Ruisdael: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Christopher Brown, Dutch Landscape: The Early Years, Haarlem and Amsterdam, 1590–1650 (1986), an exhibition catalog; Alan Chong, “The Market for Landscape Painting in Seventeenth-Century Holland,” in Peter C. Sutton, Masters of 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Painting (1987), an exhibition catalog; E. John Walford, Jacob van Ruisdael and the Perception of Landscape (1991).

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Type Description Contributor Date
First paragraph modernization. Apr 04, 2024
Add new Web site: Art Encyclopedia - Biography of Jacob Van Ruisdael. Jan 31, 2019
Add new Web site: Art UK - Biography of Jacob Van Ruisdael. Oct 30, 2017
Add new Web site: Web Gallery of Art - Biography of Jacob Isaackszon van Ruisdael. Oct 30, 2017
Media added. Aug 09, 2017
Add new Web site: The Getty - Biography of Jacob van Ruisdael. Feb 08, 2013
Bibliography revised and updated. Jun 03, 2008
Added new Web site: National Gallery of Art - Forest Scene. Oct 29, 2006
Added new Web site: National Gallery of Art, Washington - Biography of Jacob van Ruisdael. Oct 13, 2006
Added new Web site: The Artchive - Jacob Ruisdael. May 10, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 28, 1999
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