Cottage at the Top of a Hill
Jacob van Ruisdael
c. 1660
Medium
Etching in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 18.6 × 26.8 cm (7 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.); Sheet: 19.6 × 27.7 cm (7 3/4 × 10 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
32753
About the Artist
Jacob van Ruisdael · 1623–1682
Jacob van Ruisdael (c. 1629–1682) was a Dutch painter and etcher who is widely regarded as the greatest landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age and one of the supreme landscape artists in Western art. Born in Haarlem, he was trained by his father, the frame-maker and painter Isaack van Ruisdael, and by his uncle, the landscape painter Salomon van Ruysdael. He became a member of the Haarlem Guild...