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Landscape with a Windmill

Landscape with a Windmill

1646
(Dutch, 1628/29–1682)
Framed: 69 x 88.5 x 4 cm (27 3/16 x 34 13/16 x 1 9/16 in.); Unframed: 49.5 x 68.5 cm (19 1/2 x 26 15/16 in.)

Did You Know?

Look closely at the field across from the windmill: white linens are naturally bleached in the sun, a process that would have taken several months.

Description

Even this early work by Jacob van Ruisdael—painted while he was still a teenager—shows his unique approach to landscape that made the simplest motifs seem grand and heroic. Dark forms are massed in the foreground, creating a stark contrast to the expansive, sunlit plain at left.
  • Sir Francis Cook;
    Sir Frederick Cook;
    Sir Herbert Cook, Doughty House, Richmond;
    Sir Francis Cook, Le Coin, Jersey, Channel Islands;
    Trustees of the Cook Collection (sale: Christie's, London, November 15, 1966, no. 55, listed as Follower of Ruisdael);
    [F. Kleinberger & Co., New York], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.
  • Hofstede de Groot, C. P. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. London, United Kingdom: Macmillan and Co, 1908. Reproduced: p. 62, no. 180;, vol. 4
    Cook, Francis, Tancred Borenius, J. O. Kronig, Maurice W. Brockwell, and Herbert Frederick Cook. A Catalogue of the Paintings at Doughty House, Richmond, & Elsewhere in the Collection of Sir Frederick Cook, Bt., Visconde De Monserrate. London, United Kingdom: W. Heinemann, 1913. Reproduced: p. 94, no. 350
    Rosenberg, Jakob. Jacob van Ruisdael. Berlin, Germany: B. Cassirer, 1928. Reproduced: p. 79, no. 119
    Simon, Kurt Erich. Jacob van Ruisdael; eine Darstellung seiner Entwicklung. Berlin, Germany: Würfel Verlag, 1930. Reproduced: p. 21-22, no. 28
    Cook, Francis, Maurice W. Brockwell, and Herbert Frederick Cook. Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, in the Collection of Sir Herbert Cook, Bart. London, United Kingdom: W. Heinemann, 1932. Reproduced: p. 40, no. 350
    "Year in Review." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 10 (1967): 302-46. Referenced: no. 66, p. 343, Reproduced: p. 315 www.jstor.org
    Stsechow, Wolfgang. "Ruisdael in the Cleveland Museum." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LV, no. 10 (October, 1968): 250-261. Reproduced: p. 256-257; Mentioned: p. 250, 252
    Ballegeer, J. P. "Aus der Arbeit der Museen, Amerika." Pantheon II (1968): 138. Mentioned: p. 138
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 125 archive.org
    Johnson, Mark M. "An Introduction to Lanscape Painting." Arts and Activities 82 (November 1977): 34-39. Reproduced: p. 36
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 160 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Mentioned: p. 266; Reproduced: p. 267
    Sutton, Peter C. A Guide to Dutch Art in America. Washington, D.C.: Netherlands-American Amity Trust, 1986. Reproduced: p. 69, fig. 95
    Walford, E. John. Jacob Van Ruisdael and the Perception of Landscape. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991. Reproduced: p. 55, fig. 34; p. 56, fig. 34 (detail)
    "1992 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 6 (1993): 215-95. Mentioned: p. 238 www.jstor.org
    Kretzschmar, Sabine, "Carefully Observed Terrain", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 36 no. 08, October 1996 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6-7 archive.org
    Slive, Seymour. Jacob Van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. Reproduced: p. 145, fig. 127
    Sitt, Martina. P. Biesboer, and Karsten Müller. Jacob van Ruisdael: die Revolution der Landschaft. Zwolle, Netherlands: Waanders, 2002. Reproduced: p. 73, no. 12
    Keyes, George S. Masters of Dutch Painting: Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, in association with D Giles Ltd., London, 2004. Reproduced: p. 210, fig. 1
    Slive, Seymour. Jacob Van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape. London, United Kingdom: Royal Academy of Arts, 2005. Reproduced: p. 40, no. 2
    Wiemann, Elsbeth, Jenny Gaschke, and Mona Stocker. Die Entdeckung der Landschaft: Meisterwerke der Niederländischen Kunst des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. Köln, Germany: DuMont, 2005. Reproduced: p. 150, no. 54
    Bleker, E. J., Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, and A. A. H. Bleker-Poot. Rembrandt en de Blekerfamilie. Lochem, Netherlands: Silverborgh B.V., 2005. Reproduced: p. 692, EB 606
    Donley, Gregory M., "World Travelers", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 46 no. 01, January 2006 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 9 archive.org
    Harris, Ann Sutherland. Seventeenth-Century Art & Architecture. London, United Kingdom: Laurence King Publishing Ltd., 2008. Reproduced: p. 381, fig. 5.68
    Slive, Seymour. Jacob Van Ruisdael: Windmills and Water Mills. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. Reproduced: p. 10, fig. 6
    Arikawa, Haruo. "Dutch Landscapes Revisited." Zurich studies in the history of art 19 (2012): 269-323. Reproduced: p. 277, fig. 8
    Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 187
    White, Christopher. Dutch Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen. London: Royal Collection Trust, 2015. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 335, fig. 44
    "Talks and Tours.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 59, no, 2 (March/April 2019): 43. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 43.
  • The Discovery of Landscape: Netherlandish Landscape Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, D-70184 Stuttgart, Germany (organizer) (October 15, 2005-February 5, 2006).
    Master of Landscape: Jacob van Ruisdael's Paintings, Drawings and Etchings. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (June 26-September 18, 2005); Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (February 25-June 4, 2006).
    Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).
    Manchester, City Art Gallery, 1964-66 (on extended loan).
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