Art, literature & historySalomon van Ruysdael
1602–1670
Selected artwork
Castle on a River
1644
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Other names (104)
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Biography
Salomon van Ruysdael (c. 1602, Naarden – buried 3 November 1670, Haarlem) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. He was the uncle of Jacob van Ruisdael.
According to Arnold Houbraken, Ruysdael was the son of a woodworker who specialized in making fancy ebony frames for mirrors and paintings. His father sent his sons, Jacob and Salomon, to learn Latin and medicine, and they both became landscape painters, specializing in ruis-daal, or trickling water through a dale, after their name. Jacob was registered with the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke and signed his paintings, while Salomon signed them much less often and was not a member for several years.
Houbraken wrote that Salomon invented a way of creating sculpted ornaments that when they were polished, looked like polished marble. These were quite popular as a decoration on chests and picture frames, until the secret of their manufacture was discovered and widely copied.
Houbraken confused the members of the Ruysdael family.
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Later influence
- Jacob van Ruisdaeleditorial inference
Evidence
Wikidata assertion retained for review; its references, if supplied, have not been independently verified. Teaching is recorded separately and does not itself establish artistic influence.
Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Salomon van Ruysdael. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- Musée du Louvre6 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art6 recorded works
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts4 recorded works
- Nationalmuseum2 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago1 recorded work
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie1 recorded work
- Minneapolis Institute of Art1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Bordeaux1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Caen1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Lille1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Strasbourg1 recorded work
- musée municipal — Sens1 recorded work
- Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza1 recorded work
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston1 recorded work
- National Gallery of Art1 recorded work
- Raccolte Artistiche del Castello Sforzesco1 recorded work
- Rijksmuseum1 recorded work
- The Cleveland Museum of Art1 recorded work
Sources 10
- 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
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Louvre painter identity and WikiArt profile links