RUISDAEL, Jacob Isaackszon van
(b. ca. 1628, Haarlem, d. 1682, Amsterdam)

View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds

1670-75
Oil on canvas, 56 x 62 cm
Mauritshuis, The Hague

In this landscape the painter directs our gaze deep into the painting along the patches of sunshine, from the fields where linen is spread out to bleach to Saint Bavo's Church in the distance.