# Tavern with May Tree [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUYSDAEL, Salomon van]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 80,5 x 111 cm ## Commentary This is a late work of the artist with complex composition. His later works, such as this, are more restless and animated; the landscape is peopled with figures which play a more important role in the composition as a whole and there is greater emphasis on human incident. The church in the background is the Groote Kerk \(Big Church\) at Alkmaar. ## 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]()