Landscape with Windmills Near Haarlem
Artist: Jacob van Ruisdael
Year Composed: 1652
Artistic Movement: Golden Age
Nationality: Netherlands
Floor Found in Château: Second Garden
Year Composed: 1652
Artistic Movement: Golden Age
Nationality: Netherlands
Floor Found in Château: Second Garden
About the Artwork
Known for his detailed and meteorologically-rendered atmospheres, Jacob van Ruisdael was a master of portraying emotion and tone within his paintings due to the narrative skies. In his Landscape with Windmills Near Haarlem, van Ruisdael depicts iconic structures of the Netherlands landscape: windmills. Windmills are synonymous with being conductors of the wind and sky, and van Ruisdael makes it a point to create the same vivid detail and narrative within his atmospheres as he does within his windmills. Centuries later, British painter John Constable (who is also known for his vivid and lifelike atmospheres) actually replicated this exact painting within his Landscape with Windmills Near Haarlem (1830).
About the Artist
As one of the prominent landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Jacob van Ruisdael gave the art world an almost-hyper realistic aesthetic of painting. Van Ruisdael's paintings typically depicted atmosphere as the upper two-thirds of the canvas, which expressed motion, movement, and vivacity within his pieces. The extreme precision and detail within the clouds, land, and objects give the sense of a photographic appeal to viewers, making them feel as if a part of the scene. These include The Jewish Cemetery (1650), Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede (1670), and A Wooded Marsh (1660).
About the Movement
Landscape with Windmills Near Haarlem was composed in the Dutch Golden Age of art. The Dutch Golden Age that spanned the 17th Century (or during the 1600s) in the Netherlands. During this time, the Dutch economy and culture was flourishing due to their rise in maritime trading, banking system, and rise of the middle class. The aesthetics of the Golden Age followed the Baroque Age of art, however the content of most works revolved around genre, everyday scenes of Dutch society. Some of the most famous Dutch Golden Age artists included Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, and Jan van Eyck.
Location of Original Work of Art: Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Known for his detailed and meteorologically-rendered atmospheres, Jacob van Ruisdael was a master of portraying emotion and tone within his paintings due to the narrative skies. In his Landscape with Windmills Near Haarlem, van Ruisdael depicts iconic structures of the Netherlands landscape: windmills. Windmills are synonymous with being conductors of the wind and sky, and van Ruisdael makes it a point to create the same vivid detail and narrative within his atmospheres as he does within his windmills. Centuries later, British painter John Constable (who is also known for his vivid and lifelike atmospheres) actually replicated this exact painting within his Landscape with Windmills Near Haarlem (1830).
About the Artist
As one of the prominent landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Jacob van Ruisdael gave the art world an almost-hyper realistic aesthetic of painting. Van Ruisdael's paintings typically depicted atmosphere as the upper two-thirds of the canvas, which expressed motion, movement, and vivacity within his pieces. The extreme precision and detail within the clouds, land, and objects give the sense of a photographic appeal to viewers, making them feel as if a part of the scene. These include The Jewish Cemetery (1650), Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede (1670), and A Wooded Marsh (1660).
About the Movement
Landscape with Windmills Near Haarlem was composed in the Dutch Golden Age of art. The Dutch Golden Age that spanned the 17th Century (or during the 1600s) in the Netherlands. During this time, the Dutch economy and culture was flourishing due to their rise in maritime trading, banking system, and rise of the middle class. The aesthetics of the Golden Age followed the Baroque Age of art, however the content of most works revolved around genre, everyday scenes of Dutch society. Some of the most famous Dutch Golden Age artists included Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, and Jan van Eyck.
Location of Original Work of Art: Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, United Kingdom