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A Wooded Marsh, Jacob Isaacksz. van Ruisdael, 1665
Jacob Isaacksz. van Ruisdael, portraitJacob Isaacksz. van RuisdaelDutch, 1628–1682

A Wooded Marsh

1665 · Painting · 72.5 × 99 cm

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Yes, receiving visitors

State Hermitage Museum

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Room249

On public display.

Checked
29 Aug 2026
In this state since
Aug 30, 2026
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About the painting

A Wooded Marsh (c. 1660s) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.

This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1911, who wrote; 508. A POOL IN A WOOD. Sm. 306. A stagnant pool, overgrown with flowering water-lilies and other plants, extends from the centre of the distance to the foreground. On either side are beeches and oaks, reflected in the water. In the right foreground is a great withered oak; in front of it lies a felled beech, with the left end in the water. On the left three ducks fly into the bushes at the approach of a man who is seen in the distance. A genuine and very fine picture, but almost all the green has faded from the foliage. Signed in full on the left at foot; canvas, 29 inches by 39 1/2 inches.

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Acquired by the Empress Catherine II. of Russia. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 1136; it was there in 1835 (Sm., who valued it at £450).

This scene is very similar to other paintings Ruisdael made in this period and these often served as inspiration for later painters of landscape.

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In the museum's own words — in Russian

Один из шедевров мировой пейзажной живописи, полотно "Болото" было создано гениальным голландским мастером пейзажа Якобом ван Рейсдалом, подошедшим в середине XVII в. к осмыслению природы как символа вечности. Художник разворачивает грандиозную суровую картину: могучие кряжистые деревья стремятся удержать свои изогнутые стволы на маленьких кочках, со всех сторон окруженных болотом. Вода, источник жизни, здесь грозит все поглотить своей трясиной. Чахнет молодая береза, теряет последние силы погибающий бук. И все же буйство зеленой листвы, необычайная сила, с которой разрастается, стремится ввысь, к свету все живое, дает надежду. Вдалеке видна чистая полоска горизонта, и к ней стремится, выходя на твердую землю, заплутавший путник.

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Обобщая эту величественную и трагическую картину бытия, Рейсдал выделяет каждую деталь и любуется ею, передавая нежность цветущих кувшинок, отражения деревьев в воде, испуг улетающей птицы. Листва расцвечена теплыми красками осени, а темные землисто-оливковые тона постепенно растворяются в свете голубоватых далей. Художник-философ, Рейсдал постигает сущность законов бытия и создает новый тип психологического пейзажа, открывающего путь поздним романтикам.

State Hermitage Museum

Particulars

1665 · aged 37
16281682
Accession number
ГЭ-934

In the catalog

PaintingsOilDutch paintingBaroque17th centuryHolland

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  • State Hermitage Museum
  • Image: State Hermitage Museum — Museum open access

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1646 · State Hermitage Museum

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Landscape with some houses and a sand track

1647 · State Hermitage Museum

Dunes by the Sea, Jacob van Ruisdael, 1648

Dunes by the Sea

1648 · National Gallery of Art

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Bridge with a Sluice

about 1648–1649 · J. Paul Getty Museum

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Le Buisson

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Landscape with a Traveller

1650 · State Hermitage Museum

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Landscape with a Wheatfield

about late 1650s–early 1660s · J. Paul Getty Museum

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