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

Mountain Torrent

1670s
Oil on canvas, 54 x 42 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jacob van Ruisdael developed this type of landscape in response to the Scandinavian views of Allaert van Everdingen. In fact, the painting was attributed to Van Everdingen between 1954 and 1972.