Landscape with Tree on Road to Buildings
Medium
Brush and gray wash, over graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
16.4 × 18.7 cm (6 1/2 × 7 3/8 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
83923
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...