Forest Marsh with Travellers on a Bank
Forest Marsh with Travellers on a Bank (1640s-1650s), also known as The Travellers, is an etching by the Dutch Golden Age artist Jacob van Ruisdael. A few copies are known and are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Rijksprentenkabinet of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, and Museum Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam.[1]
The cumulus clouds in the late states of the etching have been added later and are not by Ruisdael himself.[2]
Etching expert Georges Duplessis singled out The Travellers and The Cornfield as unrivalled illustrations of Ruisdael's genius.[3] Ruisdael's pupil Meindert Hobbema painted two copies of this etching. One, dated 1662, is in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.[1] A young John Constable said in 1797 that he wanted to copy the work; if he did, none of his copies have survived.[4] When Constable died he owned four Ruisdael etchings, one of which was The Travellers.[5]
The etching is catalogue number E13 in Slive's 2001 catalogue raisonné of Ruisdael.[6]
References
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Slive & Hoetink 1981, p. 258.
- ↑ Slive 2001, p. 593.
- ↑ Duplessis 1871, p. 109.
- ↑ Slive & Hoetink 1981, p. 260.
- ↑ Slive 2001, p. 701.
- ↑ Slive 2001.
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