The Little Bridge (Le Petit Pont)
Jacob van Ruisdael
17th century
Medium
Etching; first state of two
Dimensions
plate: 7 11/16 x 11 in. (19.5 x 27.9 cm) sheet: 8 1/8 x 11 5/8 in. (20.6 x 29.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.31
Tags
HousesBridgesTrees
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...