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

Low Waterfall in a Hilly Landscape

c. 1670
Oil on canvas, 46 x 54 cm
Private collection

The picture shows a low waterfall in a hilly landscape with a thatched cottage. Drawing the composition together is the bubbling low waterfall, a motif that evidently delighted the artist, for he painted more than 150 landscapes with waterfalls, torrents and rushing streams between the mid-1650s and the end of his life; they represent the largest single category of his extant paintings.