Mountainous Landscape with a Torrent | |
Other Language 1: | French |
Other Title 1: | Paysage montagneux avec torrent |
Wikidata: | Q20901667 |
Artist: | Jacob van Ruisdael |
Completion Date: | early 1670s |
Medium: | oil painting on canvas |
Movement: | Dutch Golden Age painting Landscape painting |
Height Metric: | 92 |
Width Metric: | 115 |
Dimensions Ref: | [1] |
Metric Unit: | cm |
Imperial Unit: | in |
Museum: | Musée des Beaux-Arts |
City: | Strasbourg |
Accession: | 1911 |
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]
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, . 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]