River Landscape with a View of Naarden
Salomon van Ruysdael (Dutch, about 1602–1670)
1642
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Materials & printing
Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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Why is it this affordable?
A thin, flat margin on every piece — just enough to keep the store running. Most of what you pay is the print itself. We only sell sizes that reproduce at full quality, and we don’t mark up the large sizes the way most shops do.
About this work
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 because they could capture the effects of the area’s capricious weather.
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Original size
- 59.7 × 85.1 cm (23 1/2 × 33 1/2 in.)
Museum record · 2 owners · 1 exhibition
Provenance
- Mary Hooper Warner, Boston, Mass.; by descent to her son Roger Sherman Warner, Jr., Cambridge, Mass., and Washington.
- D.C. Brod Gallery, London, by 1980; sold to Nuveen, Chicago, 1986.
Exhibitions
- London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Burlington House Fair (The Burlington Fine Art and Antique Dealers’ Fair), September 9–17, 1980, no cat.
