Panoramic view of the Amstel looking toward Amsterdam

Painting of a city scene with a river
Panoramic view of the Amstel looking toward Amsterdam by Jacob van Ruisdael

Panoramic view of the Amstel looking toward Amsterdam is a 17th-century oil on canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob van Ruisdael. It is in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.[1]

The painting is catalogue number 10 in the 1911 catalogue raisonné by art historian Hofstede de Groot. He wrote "The river fills much of the right-hand side of the picture. In the centre is a road with several figures; on the river are a raft of timber and a small vessel, from which a gun is being fired. On the left are three windmills, houses, and a bleaching-ground. The town, with its many churches and public buildings, extends in the background. One may distinguish the Westerkerk, the town-hall, the Zuiderkerk, and Oude Kerk, as well as the great synagogue. The blockhouses are not shown."[2] The painting is catalogue number 3 in Seymour Slive's 2001 catalogue raisonné of Ruisdael.[1] It is object number 74 in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum.[3]

Its dimensions are 52.1 cm x 66.1 cm. It is signed in the lower left.[1] Based on the presence of certain buildings Slive estimated that the undated painting was made between 1671 and 1681.[1] Ruisdael lived in Amsterdam at that time.

The drawing that served as a preliminary study for this painting, and a similar one that is in the Philips-de Jongh Collection, is at Leipzig.[1]

References


Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Slive 2001, p. 16.
  2. ↑ Hofstede de Groot 1911, p. 10.
  3. ↑ "Panoramic view on the Amstel looking towards Amsterdam". Fitzwilliam Museum.

Bibliography

  • Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis (1911). Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten Holländischen Mahler des XVII. Jahrhunderts [A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century] (in German). 4. Esslingen, Germany: Paul Neff. OCLC 2923803.
  • Slive, Seymour (2001). Jacob van Ruisdael: a Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08972-1.
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