# Landscape with a House in the Grove [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUISDAEL, Jacob Isaackszon van]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 105 x 162 cm ## Commentary Landscape with a House in the Grove about 1646 Oil on canvas, 105 x 162 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Ruisdael is one of the exceptional painters who appears on the scene as a precocious complete master. He was active as an independent artist before he was inscribed as a member of the Haarlem guild in 1648. More than a dozen of his works are signed and dated 1646, when he was a seventeen- or eighteen-year-old teenager, and in the following year the number increases. In these early works there is no fumbling or groping. On the contrary, from the beginning he surpasses his models by his ability to enlarge a detail of nature into central motif. The sand dunes and clumps of trees around his native town which were his favourite subjects during these years are rendered with loving care and from the moment we recognize his hand until his last years he gave unprecedented meticulous attention to arboreal details. He was the first artist to depict a variety of trees that are consistently and unequivocally recognizable to the botanist on account of their overall habit. ## 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 Traveller]() - [Landscape with a View of Haarlem \(detail\)]() - [Landscape with a View of Haarlem]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()