Dune Landscape with Oak Tree
Jacob van Ruisdael
1650–55
Medium
Black chalk, brush and gray wash, and gouache; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions
8 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (21.0 x 19.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Fletcher Fund, 1995
Accession Number
1995.196
Tags
LandscapesOaksTrees
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...