The Great Beech
Jacob van Ruisdael
1650–82
Medium
Etching; second state of three
Dimensions
Image: 7 1/4 × 10 9/16 in. (18.3 × 26.8 cm) Sheet: 7 5/8 in. × 11 in. (19.4 × 27.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1919
Accession Number
19.74.20
Tags
Human FiguresTrees
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...