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

Woodland Scene with Lake

c. 1657
Oil on oak, 14 x 17 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

The Woodland Scene with Lake is done in a rich impasto, sides cut in precipitous fashion as if to remind us of the arbitrary delimitations of life and sight.