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Find the mother with her basket and the child wading along the path, and the lone traveler coming toward them, then look up at the clouds that fill half the canvas.
Ruisdael was admired above all for brooding woodland scenes like this one from the 1660s. Nature fills almost the whole canvas, and a few small figures make the trees and sky seem even larger. For much of the 19th century the painting belonged to the Städel art institute in Frankfurt.
oil on canvas · Framed: 73 x 81.5 x 11 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Dutch Golden Age
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- Museum title
- Wooded and Hilly Landscape
- Artist
- Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29–1682)
- Date
- 1660s
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 73 x 81.5 x 11 cm (28 3/4 x 32 1/16 x 4 5/16 in.); Unframed: 51.6 x 59.4 cm (20 5/16 x 23 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.