RUYSDAEL, Salomon van
(b. ca. 1602, Naarden, d. 1670, Haarlem)

River Landscape

1647
Oil on panel, 51 x 69 cm
Private collection

In this panel the painter depicts a river landscape near the city of Haarlem with cattle and fishing boats. During the 1640s Ruysdael painted many variations on the river scene, a subject he had treated as early as 1631, and by 1650 had made his personal specialty.