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Salomon van Ruysdael

The Ferry Boat, 1645

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Description

Maker

  • Salomon van Ruysdael, ca. 1600-1670, Dutch

Title

The Ferry Boat

Year

1645

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

97.2 x 144.2 cm (38 1/4 x 56 3/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Initialed and dated on boat:S.v.R. 1645

Place

Netherlands

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Museum Appropriation Fund

Object Number

33.204

Projects & Publications

Publications

RISD STEAM/Discovery Through Juxtaposition

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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Intermission

December 16, 2016 - July 2, 2017

The Natural World, the Body, and the Divine

February 3 - April 16, 2006

From the Reserve I

April 9 - August 3, 1994

The Facts of Life

June 24 - October 23, 1988

European Galleries

Salomon van Ruysdael’s landscape paintings often feature low horizon lines, clouds towering across a blue sky, clusters of trees, and placid waters. Using thin washes of paint on a light ground, he recorded the landscape and waterways around the Dutch city of Haarlem, where he lived. Here the body of water leads to the horizon, while the ferryboat balances the composition and offers a glimpse of everyday life in Holland. Collected by successful merchants and the Dutch nobility alike, scenes like this one represented a trend in Holland at that time toward landscapes depicting the virtues of the homeland and the poetics of the local.

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