# Dune Landscape with Oak Tree

**Jacob van Ruisdael** (Dutch, 1628/29–1682)  
1650–55  
Black chalk, brush and gray wash, and gouache; framing lines in pen and brown ink  
8 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (21.0 x 19.1 cm)

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995.196. [The museum's record](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/337493).

## About this work

Jacob van Ruisdael painted this in 1650–55, aged about 22. It is now at The Met in New York.

### How it was made

- **Opaque watercolour.** Watercolour made opaque with white or chalk and laid in flat, even layers. Persian and Indian painters ground their colours from minerals, applied them with the finest brushes and burnished the finished page.
- **Chalk.** Natural black, red and white chalks. Used together on toned paper they could give the warmth of flesh with very little effort, and they were favourites for studies from life.
- **Pen and ink.** Drawn with a quill or reed pen, often with wash added by brush to model light and shadow.

### [Jacob van Ruisdael](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/jacob-van-ruisdael)

Dutch, 1628/29–1682; born in Haarlem; died in Amsterdam

Ruisdael was the leading Dutch landscape painter of the seventeenth century. Probably trained by his father Isaack and his uncle Salomon van Ruysdael in Haarlem, he painted dunes, woods, waterfalls, beaches and wheat fields under towering skies, giving familiar scenery a dramatic, sometimes melancholy weight. He moved to Amsterdam around 1656, and Meindert Hobbema was his pupil. Views such as Wheat Fields show his gift for the low Dutch horizon and the moving clouds above it.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Drawings
- The artist was about 22
- Real size: about 8½ × 7½ in (21 × 19 cm). The original is small: even the 8 × 10 in print shows it larger than life.
- Century: 17th century
- Subjects: Landscapes, Oaks, Trees
- Colour: grey
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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- Framed reproduction: 8 × 10 in $78; 11 × 14 in $98; 12 × 16 in $108; 16 × 20 in $138; 18 × 24 in $164; 20 × 30 in $208
- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79; 16 × 20 in $98; 18 × 24 in $118
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3; 20 × 30 in $5

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