Two Water Mills with an Open Sluice
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Two Water Mills with an Open Sluice, also known as Two Watermills and an Open Sluice, Two Undershot Water Mills with an Open Sluice is a 1653 painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob van Ruisdael. It is in the collection of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.[1]
The painting shows two working undershot water mills, with the major one being half-timbered with a cob-facade construction, tie beams, and vertical plank gable. This is characteristic of the water mills in the Bentheim area in Germany, to where Ruisdael had travelled in the early 1650s.[1] This painting is one of six known variations on this theme and the only one that is dated.[2]
Although other Western artists had depicted water mills before, Ruisdael was the first to make it the focal subject in a painting.[3] Meindert Hobbema, Ruisdael's pupil, started working on the water mills subject in the 1660s. Today Hobbema is more strongly associated with water mills than his teacher.[4]
The painting is known by various names. The painting is called Two Water Mills with an Open Sluice in Seymour Slive's 2001 catalogue raisonné of Ruisdael, catalogue number 119.[4] In his 2011 book on Ruisdael's mills and water mills Slive calls it Two Undershot Water Mills with an Open Sluice.[1] The Getty Museum calls it Two Watermills and an Open Sluice on their website, object number 82.PA.18.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b c Slive 2011, p. 56.
- ^ a b "Two Watermills and an Open Sluice". Getty Museum. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
- ^ Slive 2011, p. 54.
- ^ a b Slive 2001, p. 130.
Bibliography
- Slive, Seymour (2001). Jacob van Ruisdael: a Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08972-1.
- Slive, Seymour (2011). Jacob van Ruisdael: Windmills and Water Mills. Los Angeles: Getty Publications. ISBN 978-1-60606-055-1.
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- Landscape with a Cottage and Trees (1646)
- Landscape with a Windmill (1646)
- Wooded Dunes (1646)
- Landscape with a Windmill near a Town Moat (1650s)
- View of Bentheim Castle (1650s)
- Rough Sea at a Jetty (1650s)
- Storm Off a Sea Coast (1670)
- View of Egmond aan Zee (1650s)
- Evening Landscape: A Windmill by a Stream (unknown)
- Two Watermills and an Open Sluice near Singraven (c. 1650)
- The Jewish Cemetery (1650s)
- Two Mills (1650s)
- Dune Landscape near Haarlem (c. 1647-1653)
- Bentheim Castle (Dublin) (1653)
- Two Water Mills with an Open Sluice (1653)
- View of the Binnenamstel at Amsterdam (c. 1652-1660)
- A Thatch-Roofed House with a Water Mill (c. 1660)
- The Watermill (c. 1660)
- The Arrival of Cornelis de Graeff and Members of His Family at Soestdijk, His Country Estate (c. 1660) (with Thomas de Keyser)
- Entrance to a Forest (1660s)
- Landscape with Waterfall (1660s)
- A Waterfall in a Rocky Landscape (c. 1660)
- Winter View of the Hekelveld in Amsterdam (1660s)
- The Ray of Light (c. 1665)
- A Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Church ( c. 1665)
- A Wooded Marsh (1660s)
- Waterfall in a Mountainous Landscape with a Ruined Castle (c. 1665-1670)
- Wheat Fields (c. 1670)
- Mountainous Landscape with a Torrent (1670s)
- Winter Landscape near Haarlem (1670s)
- View of Haarlem from the Northwest, with the Bleaching Fields in the Foreground (1670s)
- Panoramic view of the Amstel looking toward Amsterdam (c. 1671-1681)
- Mountain Landscape with a Watermill (c. 1675-1679)
- View of Haarlem with Bleaching Fields (c. 1670-1675)
- Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede (c. 1670)
- View on the Amstel from Amsteldijk (c. 1680)
- View of the Dam and Damrak at Amsterdam
- Frick Collection
- Boymans van Beuningen
- Mauritshuis
- Isaack van Ruisdael (father)
- Haerlempjes
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