# Seascapes with Sailing Boat [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUYSDAEL, Salomon van]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on oak, 36 x 33 cm \(each\) ## Commentary In these two paintings, boats are sailing under a wide, high sky. Laden with goods and passengers, rowing boats and sailing boats with all sails set cross the canal. Rivers and canals were the simplest and fastest transport routes in the dense network of waterways in the Netherlands. ## 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]()