This large canvas of about 1670 is Ruisdael's most ambitious view of grain fields, a subject he treated frequently. The monumental design, with its centralized recession into space, might have been intended for a particular location, perhaps above a mantelpiece. During the seventeenth century, paintings of this size were usually hung high.
Wheat Fields
oil paint and sand on canvas • 100 x 130.2 cm
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Jacob van Ruisdael