# River Landscape with Boats and Liesvelt Castle [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUYSDAEL, Salomon van]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, x cm ## Commentary In this peaceful river scene. various vessels float along a river whose blue surface is slightly rippled by a gentle breeze. Beyond the bank at right rises the tower of Liesvelt Castle - a fortress that sat along the bank of the Lek River in South Holland until it was demolished in 1740. It appears Ruysdael appreciated the picturesque qualities of this structure, for it recurs in a number of his other imagined river scenes ## 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]()