# Waterfall in Norway [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUISDAEL, Jacob Isaackszon van]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 108 x 143 cm ## Commentary Waterfall in Norway 1668-72 Oil on canvas, 108 x 143 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Ruisdael never visited Scandinavia, but he borrowed the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/e/everding/allaert/scanland.html'\)" href="/html/e/everding/allaert/scanland.html">idea of Norwegian landscapes</a> from Allaert van Everdingen, an artist who worked for a time in Haarlem and had success with such works. A rush of water carrying away a broken tree, a house huddled on a slope, and tiny figures beneath a clouded sky - all these components make it possible to see the painting as a piece of 17th-century speculation on the romantic opposition of man and the elements. ## 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]()