River landscape with ferry

Salomon van Ruysdael
Netherlands
c.1602 – 1670

River landscape with ferry
1661
oil on canvas
Place made
Haarlem, Netherlands
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
65.0 x 88.5 cm (sight)
87.5 x 111.0 x 9.0 cm (frame)
Credit line
Gift of Gladys Penfold Hyland in memory of her husband Frank 1964
Accession number
0.2026
Signature and date
Signed and dated l.r. on boat hull "S[?illeg] Ruysdael - 1661"
Provenance
Acquired by Frank (1873–1948) and Gladys (1886–1974) Penfold Hyland, Sydney before 1934; donated by Gladys Penfold Hyland, Toft Monks, Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, 1964.
Media category
Painting
Collection area
European paintings
Image credit
Photo: AGSA

  • WALL LABEL: Pathos, collection display 2023


    The van Ruysdael/van Ruisdael family were highly respected artists and artisans during the Golden Age of Dutch painting. Salomon’s father was a renowned woodworker who specialised in making ebony frames, which were very at the time very popular for both paintings and mirrors and of course are a style often associated with painting of the period.


    Salomon, his brothers Jacob and Isaack, and nephew also Jacob (van Ruisdael) were all well-known landscape painters, painting typically Dutch scenes of canals, boats and other waterways. Given the similarity of subject matter and indistinct signatures on many works by the van Ruysdaels there has been significant confusion over attribution over the centuries. Today the nephew of Salomon, Jacob Isaacksoon van Ruisdael, is often considered the most accomplished in this family of very skilled landscape painters. 


    Tansy Curtin, Curator of International Art Pre-1980