River landscape with ferry
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- Place made
- Haarlem, Netherlands
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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65.0 x 88.5 cm (sight)
87.5 x 111.0 x 9.0 cm (frame) - Credit line
- Gift of Gladys Penfold Hyland in memory of her husband Frank 1964
- Accession number
- 0.2026
- Signature and date
- Signed and dated l.r. on boat hull "S[?illeg] Ruysdael - 1661"
- Provenance
- Acquired by Frank (1873–1948) and Gladys (1886–1974) Penfold Hyland, Sydney before 1934; donated by Gladys Penfold Hyland, Toft Monks, Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, 1964.
- Media category
- Painting
- Collection area
- European paintings
- Image credit
- Photo: AGSA
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WALL LABEL: Pathos, collection display 2023
The van Ruysdael/van Ruisdael family were highly respected artists and artisans during the Golden Age of Dutch painting. Salomon’s father was a renowned woodworker who specialised in making ebony frames, which were very at the time very popular for both paintings and mirrors and of course are a style often associated with painting of the period.
Salomon, his brothers Jacob and Isaack, and nephew also Jacob (van Ruisdael) were all well-known landscape painters, painting typically Dutch scenes of canals, boats and other waterways. Given the similarity of subject matter and indistinct signatures on many works by the van Ruysdaels there has been significant confusion over attribution over the centuries. Today the nephew of Salomon, Jacob Isaacksoon van Ruisdael, is often considered the most accomplished in this family of very skilled landscape painters.
Tansy Curtin, Curator of International Art Pre-1980
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Making Nature: Masters of European Landscape Art
Art Gallery of South Australia, 26 June 2009 – 6 September 2009