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Look for the pink underlayer showing between the blue strokes of the water, then find the fishermen hauling nets, the church tower and the windmill across the river.
Rain is moving in over the river at Naarden, the town where, the National Gallery notes, Salomon van Ruysdael was born. The Art Institute of Chicago describes how he built the scene from a few colors: thin streaks of steel blue for the rippling water, letting the pink ground beneath show through, and quick dabs of green and brown for leaves stirring in the wind.
Oil on panel · 59.7 × 85.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Dutch Golden Age
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- Museum title
- River Landscape with a View of Naarden
- Artist
- Salomon van Ruysdael (Dutch, about 1602–1670)
- Date
- 1642
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 59.7 × 85.1 cm (23 1/2 × 33 1/2 in.); Framed: 83.2 × 107.3 × 7 cm (32 3/4 × 42 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Nuveen
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1602–1670
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.