Wheat Fields
ca. 1670
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
39 3/8 x 51 1/4 in. (100 x 130.2 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
Accession Number
14.40.623
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Art Historical Context
Step into the serene expanse of *Wheat Fields*, a masterful oil on canvas by Jacob van Rdael, painted around 1670. Measuring an impressive 39⅜ × 51¼ inches, this large-scale work captures the rolling Dutch countryside, with golden wheat swaying under vast skies and winding roads inviting the viewer's gaze into the distance. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's European department, it entered the collection through the generous bequest of Benjamin Altman in1913. Ruisdael, one of the preeminent landscape artists of the Dutch Golden Age, elevated everyday rural scenes into poetic visions o...
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...