# River Landscape [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUYSDAEL, Salomon van]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on oak panel, 41 x 67 cm ## Commentary This landscape represents the river Lek with a rowing boat and cattle ferry, and Liesvelt Castle in the distance. Liesvelt Castle stood on the south bank of the river Lek between Groot Ammers and Gelkenes. It was raised up in 1042, and it was demolished in 1740. It appears Ruysdael appreciated the picturesque qualities of this structure, for it recurs in a number of his other imagined river scenes. ## Related artworks - [A Country Road]() - [A Ferry Boat near Arnheim]() - [A Winter Landscape]() - [Drawing the Eel]() - [Dutch Vessels at the Mouth of an Estuary \(detail\)]() - [Dutch Vessels at the Mouth of an Estuary]() - [Ferry near Gorinchem \(detail\)]() - [Ferry near Gorinchem]() - [Fishing Boats on a River]() - [Halt at an Inn \(detail\)]() - [Halt at an Inn]() - [Landscape \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()