DETAILS
- Artist
- Jacob van Ruisdael
- Date
- 1600
- Medium
- Etching; first state of two
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- plate: 7 11/16 x 11 in. (19.5 x 27.9 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1922
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THE ARTIST
Jacob van Ruisdael
Jacob van Ruisdael, the pre-eminent landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, captured the soul of nature from windswept dunes to dramatic waterfalls.
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