Paintings Reproductions Waterfall with Castle Built on the Rock by Jacob Isaakszoon Van Ruisdael (1628-1682, Netherlands) | WahooArt.com

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Jacob Isaakszoon Van Ruisdael - Oil
Dutch painting in the 17th century is characterised by the multitude of genres in which individual painters specialised. Jacob Isaacksz. van Ruisdael, the painter of this impressive work, is one of the most important, most versatile and most productive landscape painters of the second half of the century. Ruisdael painted many variations on this theme, a Nordic mountain landscape with rushing waterfall. In his choice of subject matter, he was influenced by Allaert van Everdingen, another landscape painter. Unlike the latter, however, Ruisdael had never been to Scandinavia, and so his paintings were based not so much on studies from nature as on van Everdingen's example and his own powers of imagination.