Ruisdael - View of the Amstel looking towards Amsterdam
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Technical data
Size | 40 x 140cm |
Color | Original |
Composition | 100% Silk |
Weaving | Satin stripes muslin (alternating transparent and shiny stripes) |
Made in | Lyon, France |
Gender | Women |
Dutch painter and engraver, Jacob van Ruisdael (1657-1682) is one of the greatest landscape painters of the 17th century. His compositions, complex and powerfully suggestive, are based on a great wealth of contrasts of light where an extreme tension dominates.
Most of his works evoke distant regions with stormy skies or foaming waterfalls. The perspective, which is constructed freely using diagonals and horizontals, and the absence of slender forms in the foreground reinforce the immensity of the river landscape. We find in this work the effects of light piercing through a stormy sky, the interpretation of a nature subject to the laws of time. The dramatic character of his landscapes will have a very strong influence on the Romantic artists.
View of the Amstel looking towards Amsterdam, 1671-1681
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge


