Mountainous Landscape with a Torrent
Painting by Jacob van Ruisdael
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Mountainous Landscape with a Torrent is an early 1670s landscape painting by the Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdael. It is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 619.[2]
| Mountainous Landscape with a Torrent | |
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| Paysage montagneux avec torrent (French) | |
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| Artist | Jacob van Ruisdael |
Completion date | early 1670s |
| Medium | oil painting on canvas |
| Movement | Dutch Golden Age painting Landscape painting |
| Dimensions | 92 cm × 115 cm (36 in × 45 in)[1] |
| Location | |
| Accession | 1911 |
The painting was bought in 1911 in Berlin from Thomas Agnew & Sons by Wilhelm von Bode with a fund from the legacy of the publisher and patron of the museum, Karl Trübner. The subject Ruisdael depicted – a dramatic landscape with "Nordic" (Scandinavian) elements and a castle on a hill, not found as such in the Low Countries – is inspired by works of Allaert van Everdingen, such as the imposing Nordic Landscape with a Castle on a Hill (also in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg).[1]
