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Like many other Dutch landscape artists, Ruysdael celebrated the new nation's countryside, coastal scenes, and urban profiles in his landscape views. However, they are more impressions of the countryside than exact "snapshots."By presenting the river at an angle that is both a diagonal (on the surface of the picture) and oblique (receding back into space), Ruysdael invites us to follow it into the landscape. Clouds and clumps of trees accentuate these patterns. He was a pioneer of the "tonal" landscape, a Dutch innovation in which a restricted color scheme evokes the pale luminosity of the overcast Dutch skies.
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Document identity
localId
35167
label
River View with Fishermen
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
35167
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
River View with Fishermen
description
Like many other Dutch landscape artists, Ruysdael celebrated the new nation's countryside, coastal scenes, and urban profiles in his landscape views. However, they are more impressions of the countryside than exact "snapshots."By presenting the river at an angle that is both a diagonal (on the surface of the picture) and oblique (receding back into space), Ruysdael invites us to follow it into the landscape. Clouds and clumps of trees accentuate these patterns. He was a pioneer of the "tonal" landscape, a Dutch innovation in which a restricted color scheme evokes the pale luminosity of the overcast Dutch skies.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1909 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1633 (Baroque)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
paintings
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
46
height
72.7
dimensionsRaw
18 1/8 x 28 5/8 in. (46 x 72.7 cm)
Source extras
med
oil on panel
creator_ids
5625
collection_ids
BAR
exhibition_ids
13
963
Single page context
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1
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0
type
photo
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ac1931a852df659c