Wheat Fields

Wheat Fields

Wheat Fields

Artist:Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, Haarlem 1628/29–1682 Amsterdam)
Date:ca. 1670
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:39 3/8 x 51 1/4 in. (100 x 130.2 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913

This large canvas of about 1670 is Ruisdael's most ambitious view of grain fields, a subject he treated frequently. The monumental design, with its centralized recession into space, might have been intended for a particular location, perhaps above a mantelpiece. During the seventeenth century, paintings of this size were usually hung high.

Provenance

Pierre-Louis-Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Laplace, Paris; [Sedelmeyer, Paris, in 1905]; Maurice Kann, Paris (until d. 1906; his estate, 1906–9; sold to Duveen); [Duveen, London, 1909; sold for $194,800 to Altman]; Benjamin Altman, New York (1909–d. 1913)

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