River Landscape with a View of Naarden
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
59.7 × 85.1 cm (23 1/2 × 33 1/2 in.); Framed: 83.2 × 107.3 × 7 cm (32 3/4 × 42 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
238272
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
In this river scene, Salomon van Ruysdael applied his reduced color palette with an impressive array of techniques to render the atmosphere of approaching rain. He created rippling waters with thinly applied, striated strokes of steelblue paint that reveal the pink preparatory ground below. He invoked the breeze fluttering through the leaves by varying light green and brown paint in quickly stippled strokes of a small brush. Such “tonal” landscapes became popular in the Netherlands, in part beca...
About the Artist
Salomon van Ruysdael · 1600–1670
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