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Wooded and Hilly Landscape

Jacob van RuisdaelLinkedCulture matchlcp-408c23b5078c

Date: 1660s
Medium: oil on canvas
Culture: Netherlands
Department: European Painting and Sculpture
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 139816

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Jacob van Ruisdael, one of the most eminent Dutch landscape painters, is revered for his brooding woodland compositions. With much of this painting's composition dedicated to nature alone, an underlying sense of sublimity is heightened by Ruisdael through the inclusion of several diminutive figures. A mother and child trudge through a weathered path in the foreground, their pet dog following closely at their side, while a lone traveler approaches from the foliage ahead of them. This work is an excellent representation of the artist's later period, speaking to both his preoccupation with meticulous detail and the transitory relationship between humans and nature.

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Credit line: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Provenance: -1754: Johann Matthias de Neufville Gontrad [1754-1794], Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, upon his death, by inheritance to his wife | 1754-1817: Wife of Johann Matthias de Neufville Gontrad, by gift or sold to the Stadelsches Kunstinstitut, 1817 | 1817-possibly 1900: Stadelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main (no. 270 in the catalogue of 1900) | 1921: August Berg (Portland, Oregon), 1921 | Frederick Mont [1894-1994], New York, NY, probably sold to Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., | 1963: Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., [1909-1988], New York, NY, sold through Frederick Mont, New York, NY, to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963. | 1963-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH