# 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._

4 works in the collection.

- [Landscape with a Windmill](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/landscape-with-a-windmill-cma-143234), Jacob van Ruisdael, 1646. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [Wheat Fields](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/wheat-fields-met-437549), Jacob van Ruisdael, ca. 1670. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Dunes by the Sea](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/dunes-by-the-sea-nga-210038), Jacob van Ruisdael, 1648. Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington.
- [Dune Landscape with Oak Tree](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/dune-landscape-with-oak-tree-met-337493), Jacob van Ruisdael, 1650–55. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.