# Landscape with Shepherds and Peasants

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## Artwork

- Artist: [RUISDAEL, Jacob Isaackszon van](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ruisdael-jacob-isaackszon-van-r80066c5df087f6>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 52 x 60 cm

## Commentary

One of the greatest of the Dutch landscape painters, Ruisdael satisfyingly balanced allegory and plausibility in this very likely invented rural scene. Beneath a Baroque sky, with its implication of heavenly grace, a flourishing tree anchors the composition. Though Protestant Amsterdam shunned overtly religious subjects, a work such as this might answer to spiritual sentiments.

## Related artworks

- [A Marsh in a Forest at Dusk](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ruisdael-jacob-isaackszon-van-r80066c5df087f6/a-marsh-in-a-forest-at-dusk-ra83e0a90850e32>)
- [A Village in Winter](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ruisdael-jacob-isaackszon-van-r80066c5df087f6/a-village-in-winter-r87316ee492c78c>)
- [An Extensive Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Village Church](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ruisdael-jacob-isaackszon-van-r80066c5df087f6/an-extensive-landscape-with-a-ruined-castle-and-a-village-church-r144d097c7884d5>)
- [Bentheim Castle \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ruisdael-jacob-isaackszon-van-r80066c5df087f6/bentheim-castle-detail-r9f36b3bf109ad5>)
- [Bentheim Castle](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ruisdael-jacob-isaackszon-van-r80066c5df087f6/bentheim-castle-re1a8c14b1b8bcd>)
- [Evening Landscape: A Windmill by a Stream](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ruisdael-jacob-isaackszon-van-r80066c5df087f6/evening-landscape-a-windmill-by-a-stream-r699cb02c032d9c>)
- [Glade in a Wood](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ruisdael-jacob-isaackszon-van-r80066c5df087f6/glade-in-a-wood-r1e1dc239339cf0>)
- [Grainfields](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ruisdael-jacob-isaackszon-van-r80066c5df087f6/grainfields-r5bb1c8f8d523a1>)
- [Huis Kostverloren on the Amstel River](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ruisdael-jacob-isaackszon-van-r80066c5df087f6/huis-kostverloren-on-the-amstel-river-rab4b2effa0a3fb>)
- [Landscape with a House in the Grove](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ruisdael-jacob-isaackszon-van-r80066c5df087f6/landscape-with-a-house-in-the-grove-r9e469e2252b572>)
- [Landscape with a Traveller](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ruisdael-jacob-isaackszon-van-r80066c5df087f6/landscape-with-a-traveller-r3499237414f9d3>)
- [Landscape with a View of Haarlem \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ruisdael-jacob-isaackszon-van-r80066c5df087f6/landscape-with-a-view-of-haarlem-detail-r2ce1d613f5dd59>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)