# Road through an Oak Forest [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUISDAEL, Jacob Isaackszon van]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 85 x 104 cm ## Commentary Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael is the most prominent and innovative representative of the landscape genre in the Dutch school during the second half of the 17th century. Since the beginning of the century a number of masters in Holland had shown an interest in capturing the different nuances of light and in depicting cloudy skies, granting nature a poetic quality and taking the genre to new heights. Ruisdael began to paint at a very early age with his father and his uncle, who were also well known for their landscapes. In 1649 he was accepted as a master in the guild of painters of Haarlem, and in 1657 he moved to Amsterdam, where he remained for the rest of his life. ## Related artworks - [A Marsh in a Forest at Dusk]() - [A Village in Winter]() - [An Extensive Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Village Church]() - [Bentheim Castle \(detail\)]() - [Bentheim Castle]() - [Evening Landscape: A Windmill by a Stream]() - [Glade in a Wood]() - [Grainfields]() - [Huis Kostverloren on the Amstel River]() - [Landscape with a House in the Grove]() - [Landscape with a Traveller]() - [Landscape with a View of Haarlem \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()