View of Haarlem with Bleaching Fields

View of Haarlem with Bleaching Fields

Artist	Jacob van Ruisdael
Year	1670–1675
Dimensions	62.2 cm × 55.2 cm (24.5 in × 21.7 in)
Location	Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich

View of Haarlem with Bleaching Fields (c. 1670–1675) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdael. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the collection of the Kunsthaus Zürich.

This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1911, who wrote; "92. The Haarlem Bleaching-Grounds. In the left foreground is a marshy pool surrounded with trees. A road leads from it up a hill towards the right background. In the middle distance is part of the bleaching-grounds ; large pieces of linen are spread out near cottages, and many persons are at work. In the distance is the town of Haarlem, dominated by the church of St. Bavo. The sky is filled with great masses of cloud which overshadow almost the whole landscape ; stray sunbeams illumine part of the town and the bleaching-grounds. Signed in full in the left-hand bottom corner ; canvas, 25 1/2 inches by 22 inches. Exhibited at Diisseldorf, 1886, No. 288. Sale. Count Sierstorpff, Berlin, April 19, 1887, No. 67.^[1]

Other versions

This scene is very similar to other panorama paintings Ruisdael made in this period and these Haerlempjes often served as inspiration for later painters of landscape, such as Jacob Maris of the Hague School.

Version from the Gemäldegalerie
Version from the Timken Museum of Art
Version from the Mauritshuis
Version from the Rijksmuseum.
Jacob Maris: Gardens near The Hague
Andreas Schelfhout: "Landscape with view of Haarlem"

References

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↑ Entry 92 for The Haarlem Bleaching Grounds in Hofstede de Groot, 1912 (English translation)

Volume IV translated from the German original. A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century based on the work of John Smith. Translation in English and edited by Edward G. Hawke and assisted by Kurt Freise by Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis, 1863-1930; Smith, John, dealer in pictures, London, 1912
View of Haarlem with bleaching field in the foreground, ca.1670-1675 in the RKD

Jacob van Ruisdael
List of paintings
Paintings	Wooded Dunes Landscape with a Cottage and Trees View of Bentheim Castle Rough Sea at a Jetty Storm Off a Sea Coast Landscape with a Windmill near a Town Moat View of Egmond aan Zee Two Watermills and an Open Sluice near Singraven Dune Landscape near Haarlem Bentheim Castle (Dublin) Two Water Mills with an Open Sluice View of the Binnenamstel at Amsterdam A Thatch-Roofed House with a Water Mill The Watermill The Arrival of Cornelis de Graeff and Members of His Family at Soestdijk, His Country Estate A Waterfall in a Rocky Landscape The Jewish Cemetery The Ray of Light A Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Church A Wooded Marsh Waterfall in a Mountainous Landscape with a Ruined Castle Landscape with Waterfall View of Haarlem from the Northwest, with the Bleaching Fields in the Foreground View of the Dam and Damrak at Amsterdam Frick Collection Boymans van Beuningen Mauritshuis Panoramic view of the Amstel looking toward Amsterdam¨ Mountain Landscape with a Watermill Winter Landscape near Haarlem Winter View of the Hekelveld in Amsterdam View of Haarlem with Bleaching Fields Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede View on the Amstel from Amsteldijk
Etchings	Grainfield at the Edge of a Wood Forest Marsh with Travellers on a Bank

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