# Torrent in a Scandinavian Landscape

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## Artwork

- Artist: [ROMBOUTS, Salomon](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rombouts-salomon-raf61c0942219ae>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on panel, 37 x 32 cm

## Commentary

This painting depicts a river rushing through a rocky northern landscape. Waterfalls were popular elements in the work of seventeenth-century Dutch masters such as &lt;a onclick=&#34;return OpenOther\(&#39;/html/r/ruysdael/jacob/3/waterfog.html&#39;\)&#34; href=&#34;/html/r/ruysdael/jacob/3/waterfog.html&#34;&gt;Jacob van Ruisdael&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a onclick=&#34;return OpenOther\(&#39;/html/e/everding/allaert/forest\_s.html&#39;\)&#34; href=&#34;/html/e/everding/allaert/forest\_s.html&#34;&gt;Allaert van Everdingen,&lt;/a&gt; whose paintings clearly influenced Rombouts.

## Related artworks

- [A Village Street Scene](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rombouts-salomon-raf61c0942219ae/a-village-street-scene-r66730bd7c1cfeb>)
- [Coast at Scheveningen](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rombouts-salomon-raf61c0942219ae/coast-at-scheveningen-rb8e21bbe66aa9a>)
- [Wooded Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rombouts-salomon-raf61c0942219ae/wooded-landscape-r7b136acb2cb1a0>)

## Attribution

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