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"tombstone": "Low Waterfall in a Wooded Landscape with a Dead Beech Tree, c. 1660\u201370. Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29\u20131682). Oil on canvas; framed: 123 x 157 x 9.5 cm (48 7/16 x 61 13/16 x 3 3/4 in.); unframed: 99.2 x 131 cm (39 1/16 x 51 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1967.63",
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"description": "Freiherren von Ketteler (first at Schloss Harkotten near Warendorf, probably by mid-eighteenth century;",
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"description": "(sale: Sotheby\u2019s London, November 30, 1966, no. 21; to Legatt);",
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"did_you_know": "Jacob van Ruisdael was inspired by trees in various states of decay, observed from nature.",
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"description": "Jutting from a dune in the foreground, the massive silvery trunk of a dead tree leads the eye across a waterfall and toward a distant sunlit field where travelers and a dog traverse a sandy path. Partly masked by trees, a ruined building is turned gold by the sun. In Jacob van Ruisdael\u2019s landscapes, dead trees, waterfalls, and ruined buildings were visual expressions of the passage of time. Ruisdael devoted equal attention to the cloud-filled skies looming above the land, creating dramatic patterns of light and shadow and revealing the unseen movements of the wind.",
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"citation": "Rosenberg, Jakob. Jacob van Ruisdael. Berlin, Germany: B. Cassirer, 1928.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 81, no. 140",
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"citation": "Simon, Kurt Erich. Jacob van Ruisdael; eine Darstellung seiner Entwicklung. Berlin, Germany: Wu\u0308rfel Verlag, 1930.",
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"citation": "\"Year in Review.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 10 (1967): 302-46.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 65, p. 343, Reproduced: p. 314",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152183."
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"citation": "Stechow, Wolfgana. \"Ruisdael in the Cleveland Museum.\" The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LV, no.10 (October, 1968): 250-261.",
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"citation": "\"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums.\" The Art Quarterly XXXI, no. 2 (Summer 1968): 205-232.",
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"citation": "Kokuritsu Seiyo\u0304 Bijutsukan. Masterpieces of World Art from American Museums from Ancient Egyptian to Contemporary Art. Tokyo: National Museum of Western Art, 1976.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"citation": "Gibson, Walter S. Pleasant Places: The Rustic Landscape from Bruegel to Ruisdael. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000.",
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"citation": "Kuretsky, Susan Donahue, Walter S. Gibson, Catherine Levesque, Erik P. Lo\u0308ffler, Lynn Federle Orr, and Arthur K. Wheelock. Time and Transformation In Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2005.",
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