# Landscape with a Village in the Distance [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUISDAEL, Jacob Isaackszon van]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on wood.76 x 109 cm ## Commentary Landscape with a Village in the Distance 1646 Oil on wood.76 x 109 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting is one of the fifteen known landscapes painted by Jacob van Ruisdael in 1646 when he was about eighteen years old. In his youthful works a tendency to exaggerate dramatic effects can be observed. Formerly the painting was attributed to one of Van Ruisdael's followers. ## 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]()