id: 143602
accession number: 1967.63
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Low Waterfall in a Wooded Landscape with a Dead Beech Tree, c. 1660–70. Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682). 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
title: Low Waterfall in a Wooded Landscape with a Dead Beech Tree
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creation date: c. 1660–70
creation date earliest: 1660
creation date latest: 1670
current location: 213 Dutch Painting
creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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culture: Netherlands, 17th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682) - artist
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measurements: 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.)
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inscription: Signed lower left: "JvRuisdael {JvR in monogram]"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1967
opening date: 1967-11-29T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).
title: Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century
opening date: 1973-07-10T04:00:00
Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art (July 10-September 2, 1973).
title: Masterpieces of World Art from American Museums
opening date: 1976-09-11T04:00:00
Masterpieces of World Art from American Museums. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (organizer) (September 11-October 17, 1976); Kyoto National Museum (November 2-December 5, 1976).
title: Visions of Landscape: East and West
opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00
Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).
title: Time and Transformation in seventeenth-century Dutch Art
opening date: 2005-04-19T00:00:00
Time and Transformation in seventeenth-century Dutch Art. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (organizer) (April 19-June 15, 2005); John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (August 20-October 30, 2005); Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (January 15-March 26, 2006).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Düsseldorf, Junsthistorische ausstellung, (1904).
* Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, (1929-30).
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PROVENANCE
Freiherren von Ketteler (first at Schloss Harkotten near Warendorf, probably by mid-eighteenth century;
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later at Schloss Ehringerfeld near Buren, Westphalia, 1904);
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J. J. van Leeuwen Boomkamp, Naarden, Holland, 1929;
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(sale: Sotheby’s London, November 30, 1966, no. 21; to Legatt);
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[Frederick Mont, New York], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.
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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’s 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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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Hofstede de Groot, C. P. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. London, United Kingdom: Macmillan and Co, 1908.
page number: Reproduced: vol. 4, no. 220
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Rosenberg, Jakob. Jacob van Ruisdael. Berlin, Germany: B. Cassirer, 1928.
page number: Reproduced: p. 81, no. 140
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Simon, Kurt Erich. Jacob van Ruisdael; eine Darstellung seiner Entwicklung. Berlin, Germany: Würfel Verlag, 1930.
page number: Reproduced: p. 74
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"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.
Stechow, Wolfgana. "Ruisdael in the Cleveland Museum." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LV, no.10 (October, 1968): 250-261.
page number: Reproduced: p. 255, fig. 7; Mentioned: p. 254
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"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums." The Art Quarterly XXXI, no. 2 (Summer 1968): 205-232.
page number: Reproduced: p. 215
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Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan. Masterpieces of World Art from American Museums from Ancient Egyptian to Contemporary Art. Tokyo: National Museum of Western Art, 1976.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 34
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 161
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n181
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: p. 268; Mentioned: p. 269
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Walford, E. John. Jacob Van Ruisdael and the Perception of Landscape. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 118
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Gibson, Walter S. Pleasant Places: The Rustic Landscape from Bruegel to Ruisdael. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 14
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Slive, Seymour. Jacob Van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.
page number: Reproduced: p. 173, fig. 169; Mentioned: p. 172-173
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Kuretsky, Susan Donahue, Walter S. Gibson, Catherine Levesque, Erik P. Löffler, Lynn Federle Orr, and Arthur K. Wheelock. Time and Transformation In Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2005.
page number: Reproduced: p. 171, fig. 32
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