Landscape after Ruisdael
Thomas Doughty
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Thomas Doughty was one of the first American artists to devote himself solely to landscape painting. Landscape after Ruisdael is based on a painting by the seventeenth-century Dutch artist Jacob van Ruisdael that Doughty copied during a visit to the Louvre in Paris. Copying played an important educational role for this self-trained artist.
His earlier Harbor Landscape presents a pleasing, albeit formulaic, vista of a calm lake framed by trees in the foreground. Rather than depicting any specific American locale, the painting reflects Doughty’s dependence on drawing manuals and European landscape traditions as models for his work.
His earlier Harbor Landscape presents a pleasing, albeit formulaic, vista of a calm lake framed by trees in the foreground. Rather than depicting any specific American locale, the painting reflects Doughty’s dependence on drawing manuals and European landscape traditions as models for his work.
Caption
Thomas Doughty (American, 1793–1856). Landscape after Ruisdael, 1846. Oil on canvas, 32 1/16 x 39 5/16 in. (81.4 x 99.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Pierrepont Family, 41.5. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Landscape after Ruisdael
Date
1846
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
32 1/16 x 39 5/16 in. (81.4 x 99.9 cm)
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left: "After Ruysdael/ By T DOUGHTY/ Paris/ 1846"
Credit Line
Gift of the Pierrepont Family
Accession Number
41.5
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