RUISDAEL, Jacob Isaackszon van
(b. ca. 1628, Haarlem, d. 1682, Amsterdam)

Village at the Wood's Edge

c. 1651
Oil on canvas, 52 x 66 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

This painting involves the viewer in a strange fusion of intimacy and threat. The perils of human existence are suggested by defenseless cottages below stormy skies and ominous-looking hills.