Road in the Dunes with a Passenger Coach
by Eric Glaser
Title
Road in the Dunes with a Passenger Coach
Artist
Eric Glaser
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
Description
"Road in the Dunes with a Passenger Coach"
Artist: Salomon van Ruysdael (Dutch, 1602-1670)
Title: Road in the Dunes with a Passenger Coach
Object Type: Painting
Genre: Landscape Art
Date: 1631
Medium: Oil on Panel
Dimensions: Height: 560 mm (22.04 in); Width: 864 mm (34.01 in)
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest)
Object History: Esterházy Collection, 1871
Several members of the Ruysdael family of Haarlem figure in the history of Dutch painting, particularly landscape painting, the earliest of them, Salomon van Ruysdael, being inscribed in the Haarlem painters' guild in 1623. After the Rain, the earliest of the nine paintings by him in Budapest, contains a motif often repeated in his later paintings: a sandy road leading to a building half hidden by trees. Here and there we see breaks in the clouds which otherwise cover the sky, the air is still moist and misty after the storm, and the freshened foliage and the damp sand convey to perfection the characteristic atmosphere of the coastal countryside. In his early works, such as this, Salomon van Ruysdael used vivid greenish and yellowish colours, and it was only later that his colouring became darker and more muted.
This painting is one of Ruysdael's finest early dune landscapes. It is based on a diagonal composition of a road leading from the right foreground into the left middle distance.
This is a Google Art Project image, thank you Google!
Text Credit: Web Gallery of Art
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Additional image editing by Eric Glaser
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June 30th, 2020
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