Word: ruisdael
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Organized in roughly chronological order, the exhibit includes a recently discovered work by Bruegel and seven drawings by Rembrandt, in addition to samples of work by other old masters, including Jacob von Ruisdael and Jacques de Gheyn II, whose “Three Studies of a Dragonfly” (c. 1600) is particularly stunning...
...Dutch-French artist Ary Scheffer that he saw in the Dordrecht Museum, Christus Consolator and The Agony in the Garden. The latter he deemed "unforgettable," adding that "long ago that same painting struck Pa the same way." Van Gogh found landscapes and rural scenes just as uplifting - first Ruisdael and Constable, and then his contemporaries from the Hague School, Josef Israëls, Matthijs Maris, Anton Mauve and their Barbizon-School cousins Charles-François Daubigny and Millet. This makes for a wonderful triple play here, cloud-filled skies sweeping over broad plains painted by three generations: Ruisdael...