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Books : Arts & Photography : Artists, A-Z : ( P-R ) : Ruisdael, Jacob van
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Jacob van Ruisdael is the preeminent Dutch landscape painter of the seventeeth century, renowned for the wealth of closely observed naturalistic detail in his works. This beautiful book, written by one of the most distinguished scholars of Dutch art, is a catalogue raisonne of Ruisdael's landscapes: almost 700 paintings, more than 130 drawings, and 13 rare etchings. Seymour Slive demonstrates the totality of the artist's vision in all three media, offering comprehensive and perceptive entries on all catalogued works. He also presents and discusses paintings and drawings that have been wrongly attributed to Ruisdael or whose status is uncertain. In addition, Slive provides a documented chronology of Ruisdael's life based on a fresh examination of published and unpublished archival material; a chronological list of his dated works in all media; a topographical index; and concordances. In two appendices, Slive reviews the proposal that Ruisdael had a second profession as a medical doctor and discusses the copies John Constable made of Ruisdael's landscapes during the course of his lifelong passion for the master. The combination of text and lavish reproductions makes this volume both a major work of scholarship and a vivid testimony to Ruisdael's ongoing legacy.
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The variations of pleasure and their expression in Dutch rustic landscapes of the seventeenth century are recurring themes in Walter S. Gibson's engaging new book. Gibson focuses on Haarlem between 1600 and 1635, in his interpretation of Dutch landscapes and emphasizes prints, the medium in which the rustic view was first made available to the general art-buying public.
Gibson begins by looking at the origins of the rustic landscape in the sixteenth-century Flanders and its later reformation by Dutch artists, a legacy very much alive today. He next offers a critical review of "scriptural reading," a popular mode of interpreting the Dutch rustic landscape that incorporates Calvinist-influenced moral allegories. Gibson then explores traditional ideas concerning recreation and suggests that the pleasure of rural landscapes, not preaching, constituted their chief appeal for seventeenth-century urban viewers.
Using Visscher's Plaisante Plaetsen ("Pleasant Places") as a point of departure, Gibson examines the ways that townspeople, both the day-trippers and owners of country houses, experienced the Dutch countryside. He also discusses the role of staffage and suggests how the representations of peasants might have conditioned the responses of contemporary viewers to rural images.
Finally, Gibson considers how scenes of the dilapidated farm buildings, dead trees, and other evidence of material decay may reflect traditional ideas rustic life as imagined by a townsperson. Or how they may represent another way for the artist to engage his urban audience: far removed from the idealized landscapes of a Giorgione, the rustic landscape of a Ruisdael conveys a countryside that was beginning to disappear under the relentless pressures of urbanization.
Gibson's multilayered exploration of the rustic landscape enhances our understanding of the Golden Age in Dutch art. His richly illustrated book recalls a countryside now largely gone; at the same time, his evocative language gracefully articulates the role of the Dutch rustic landscape in the history of landscape painting.
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-- IN STOCK AND AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY--Foxing to covers; else mint. Text in French. 141 works catalogued;many b/w illustrations. Artists represented: R. Carriera; Rubens; J. Van Ruisdael; S. Van Ruysdael; Van Dijck (Van Dyck); Magnasco; and many others.
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![Important Old Master Paintings [Christie's, New York (9558) / 26 Jan 2001]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515PJTG7JML._SL160_.jpg)
Christie's auction house, New York (26 January 2001). Sale Code: 9558/FROBOY. About 278 pages and 178 lot(s). Catalog is in English. Include works by: van Aelst; Agasse; Arellano; van Balen; Balestra; Beaumont; Beccafumi; Bellini; Benson; de Blieck; Bloemaert; van Bloemen; Boisselier; Bolognese School; ter Borch; van den Bosch; Bosschaert, J.-B.; Bosschaert, N.; Both; Bourgeois; Bout; Braccesco; de Bray; van Bredael; Brescianino; Brueghel, J.; Brueghel, J.; Brueghel, P.; Calame; da Calcar; Canaletto; Canella; Casanova; Castello; Castiglione; Cavarozzi; de Caullery; Civerchio; Claesz.; de Clerck; de Cock, J.; de Cock, J.W.; Coninxloo; Courtois; Coxie; Crespi, D.; Crespi, G.-M.; Crivelli; Crosato; D'Angeli; Van Dael; Danloux; Denis; Drouais; Dughet; Duyster; van Dyck; El Greco; Fenzoni; de Ferrari; Flemish School; Forobosco; Foschi; Franceschini; Francken, F. II; Francken, H. II; Franco; French School; Gaddi; de Geest; Gennari; Gerhard; Giaquinto; Gimigniani; Giordano; Govaerts; van Goyen; Guardi; Guerra; Gysels; van Haarlem; Heda; Honthorst; Janssens; Kalf; Keirincx; van Kessel; Lawrence; Licinio; van Lint; Locatelli; Luttichuys; Macip; Maratta; Marchesi da Cotignola; Marini; Marlier; Marrel; Massari; Master of the Acquavella still life; Master of the Heisterbach Altar; Master of the Langmatt Foundation; Views; Master of the Saint Bartholomew; Altarpiece; Master of the Virgin among Virgins :; Mengozzi-Colonna; Merlin; Miel; Monogrammist H.S; Moroni; Murillo; Mytens; Natus; Neapolitan school; van der Neer; Niccolo da Siena; van Nieulandt; Nuzzi; Ochtervelt; Orizzonte; Palamedes; Panini; Peruzzini; Picinelli; Pot; Potter; van der Puyl; Quaini; Recco; Rembrandt; Reynolds; Ribera; Robert; Roman School; Rosa; Rubens; van Ruisdael; van Ruysdael; Saftleven; van Salm, A.; van Salm, R.; Salucci; Santa Cruz; del Sarto; Savery; School of Fontainebleau and more. Auction catalogs are valuable reference tool for pricing and identifying works of art and collectibles.
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No old master or modern artist begins to match the variety of landscapes Jacob van Ruisdael (1628/9–1682) depicted during the course of his career, nor his grandeur of conception and skill in portraying natural phenomena. His themes span identifiable towns, cities, and castles; rural scenes, both cultivated and wild; seascapes and shore scenes; rivers, bridges, and sluices; rushing torrents and Scandinavian waterfalls.
In this beautifully illustrated book, Seymour Slive demonstrates Ruisdael’s unrivaled range and quality through a vivid evocation of his career not only as a painter, but also as a draftsman and etcher. Slive discusses the artist’s clientele, early collectors and critics, as well as his influence on another preeminent landscapist, John Constable.
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