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Jacob van Ruisdael · 1646-1647
Jacob van Ruisdael: 1628–1682
Other names (127)
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Biography
Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjaːkɔp fɑn ˈrœyzdaːl] ; c. 1629 – 10 March 1682) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He is generally considered the pre-eminent landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, a period of great wealth and cultural achievement when Dutch painting became highly popular.
Prolific and versatile, Ruisdael depicted a wide variety of landscape subjects. From 1646 he painted Dutch countryside scenes of remarkable quality for a young man. After a trip to Germany in 1650, his landscapes took on a more heroic character. In his late work, conducted when he lived and worked in Amsterdam, he added city panoramas and seascapes to his regular repertoire. In these, the sky often took up two-thirds of the canvas. In total he produced more than 150 Scandinavian views featuring waterfalls.
Ruisdael's only registered pupil was Meindert Hobbema, one of several artists who painted figures in his landscapes. Hobbema's work has at times been confused with Ruisdael's. Ruisdael always spelt his name thus: Ruisdael, not Ruysdael.
Ruisdael's work was in demand in the Dutch Republic during his lifetime. Today it is spread across private and institutional collections around the world; the National Gallery in London, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg hold the largest collections. Ruisdael shaped landscape painting traditions worldwide, from the English Romantics to the Barbizon school in France, and the Hudson River School in the US, and influenced generations of Dutch landscape artists.
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Influenced by
- Hendrick Cornelisz Vroomeditorial inference
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- Salomon van Ruysdaeleditorial inference
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Later influence
- J. M. W. Turnereditorial inference
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- John Constableeditorial inference
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- Claude Moneteditorial inference
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- Vincent van Gogheditorial inference
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- Meindert Hobbemaeditorial inference
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- Piet Mondrianeditorial inference
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- Thomas Gainsborougheditorial inference
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- Joshua Reynoldseditorial inference
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Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Jacob van Ruisdael. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)12 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art12 recorded works
- Rijksmuseum9 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art8 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art5 recorded works
- Musée du Louvre4 recorded works
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna3 recorded works
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Strasbourg3 recorded works
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts3 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago2 recorded works
- musée Condé — Chantilly2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie — Besançon2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Lille2 recorded works
- J. Paul Getty Museum1 recorded work
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie1 recorded work
- musée Cantini — Marseille1 recorded work
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Marseille1 recorded work
- Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza1 recorded work
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- Wikidata (CC0)
- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- National Gallery of Art
- Museum authority country review
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Museum authority country review
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Louvre painter identity and WikiArt profile links
