Lecture 3: Jacob van Ruisdael’s Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede and Dutch Landscape

Jacob van Ruisdael’s Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede (ca. 1668-70) and Dutch Landscape
Friday, February 6, 2015, 1:30 pm
A famous work in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, this picture requires a slow, close look in order to see beyond its reputation and observe its subtleties. Walsh examines the place of the work in the career of Jacob van Ruisdael, the finest of all Dutch landscape painters, and considers it in the context of the many new landscape subjects that developed in the 17th century.