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Landscape with Cornfields
Salomon van Ruysdael1638
Hallwyl Museum
Stockholm, Sweden
Landscape with Cornfields is dominated by the grey mass of clouds towering lightly above a resting farmer, small in comparison to nature itself. A low horizon emphasizes the vastness of the leaden sky, which is quite typical of both Ruysdael´s and van Goyen´s paintings in the 1630´s and 1640´s. The painting is signed S.VR. 1638 in the left corner
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- Title: Landscape with Cornfields
- Creator: Salomon van Ruysdael
- Creator Lifespan: 1600 - 1670
- Creator Nationality: Dutch
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Haarlem
- Creator Birth Place: Naarden
- Date Created: 1638
- Tags: Dutch
- Provenance: Frederik Müller & Cie., Amsterdam, Bukowskis, Stockholm, Wilhelmina von Hallwyl, Stockholm 1905.
- Physical Dimensions: w525 x h335 mm (Without frame)
- Painter: Salomon van Ruysdael
- Artist info: The Ruysdael family, of which Salomon and Jacob are the most famous, were an active and wealthy part of the Mennonite movement in Holland. Salomon Ruysdael spent his life in Haarlem where the new landscape style was formed under Esaiis van de Velde. It is very uncertain whether Salomon Ruysdael studied for van de Velde but Jan van Goyen, Ruysdaels´s colleague, certinly did, and the effect on even Ruysdaels´work is evident.
- Type: Oil on panel
- External Link: Image DIG 4507
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