# Marine [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUYSDAEL, Salomon van]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on wood, 35 x 43 cm ## Commentary Despite the traditional title given in the nineteenth century, the subject of this painting is transport on a river, not on a bay. On the left bank of the river is a village and a Late Gothic church of a type common in Holland. On the right bank, a boat with lowered sails is moored by a farmhouse. The sailboat in the foreground, flying the Dutch flag, is a 'schouw', one of a few types of shallow-draft vessel that were used to ship goods and occasionally passengers between towns on the inland waterways. Comparable river views, filled almost entirely by sky and water, were painted by <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/goyen/2/viewdorx.html'\)" href="/html/g/goyen/2/viewdorx.html">Jan van Goyen</a> beginning in the late 1630s. He was probably influenced by <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/p/porcelli/singlema.html'\)" href="/html/p/porcelli/singlema.html">Jan Porcellis,</a> to whom he sold a house in 1629. This type of composition became especially common about 1650 in the work of Jan van Goyen, Salomon van Ruysdael, and their minor followers. ## 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]()