Landscape with a town in the middle distance
Can I see it?
Not on view at present
Where is “Landscape with a town in the middle distance” now? Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Not on view at present. Checked September 25, 2026.
London, United Kingdom
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
This painting was formerly attributed to the foremost landscape painter of the latter half of the seventeenth century, Jacob van Ruisdael, in a Museum catalogue of 1893. However as Michael Kauffmann noted in his Catalogue of Foreign Paintings (London: 1973) the ‘painting is so badly rubbed and so extensively repainted that an attempt at attribution would seem impossible’. Nonetheless, the general composition of the painting is in keeping with the style of landscape produced by Dutch painters throughout the seventeenth century. The only area of the painting to retain its original character is the lower-left foreground, which appears to show some of the contrasts of light typical of Ruisdael’s work, which marked a departure from the tonal landscapes of the earlier seventeenth century.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Details
- Accession number
- 582-1870
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
