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A wooded landscape
Jacob van Ruisdael·1662
Historical Context
A Wooded Landscape from 1662 at the National Gallery of Ireland shows Ruisdael's mature approach to forest scenes. His woodland paintings achieved a complexity of observed detail and atmospheric mood that established the standard for European landscape painting. Ruisdael built these forest scenes from close observation of the woods near Haarlem, using layered glazes to achieve the depth of dense tree canopies. His woodland paintings influenced Hobbema directly, and later inspired the Barbizon...
Technical Analysis
The dense woodland is rendered with varied tree forms and complex light effects. Ruisdael's handling of the interplay between sunlight and shadow through the canopy creates naturalistic depth.
