# A Marsh in a Forest at Dusk [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUISDAEL, Jacob Isaackszon van]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 78 x 92 cm ## Commentary A Marsh in a Forest at Dusk c. 1660 Oil on canvas, 78 x 92 cm Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao Beneath an overcast sky at dusk Ruisdael presents a typical stormy landscape filled with twisted trees, the leaves of which sway in the wind. It is a solitary landscape, devoid of human presence. Ruisdael captures the dramatic quality of nature in all its might, enveloped in surprising light effects, thanks to which he can be regarded a forerunner of Romantic landscape painting. This work was inspired by a landscape painted by Rubens in 1635, A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, kept at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, that Ruisdael had discovered in a print by Schelte a Bolswert. ## Related artworks - [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 \(detail\)]() - [Landscape with a View of Haarlem]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()