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Peasant Cottage in a Landscape

painting by Ruisdael

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  • Ruisdael, Jacob van: Waterfall with a Low Wooded Hill
    In Jacob van Ruisdael

    Ruisdael’s early work, such as Peasant Cottage in a Landscape (c. 1646; Hermitage, St. Petersburg), reflects his obsession with trees. Earlier Dutch artists used trees merely as decorative compositional devices, but Ruisdael made them the subject of his paintings and imbued them with forceful personalities. His draftsmanship was meticulously precise…

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