View of Egmond aan Zee

Painting by Jacob van Ruisdael

View of Egmond aan Zee

Artist| Jacob van Ruisdael
Year| 1650s
Dimensions| 31 cm × 35 cm (12 in × 14 in)
Location| Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

View of Egmond aan Zee (c. 1650s) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael.[1] It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the collection of the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.

This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1911, who wrote;

> "50. VIEW OF EGMOND AAN ZEE. The village lies in

> the middle distance, with the sea beyond. The church with its stumpy square tower rises above the houses. In the foreground is a sunlit road through the dunes. The sun's rays also fall on the sea and on a sailing-boat to the right. Blue sky with clouds. A variation of 47.

> Signed on the left with the monogram; panel, 12 inches by 14 inches. Etched by L. Lowenstam and R. Norstedt. In the collection of Louisa Ulrica, Queen of Sweden, and there attributed to Rembrandt. In the collection of Gustavus III., King of Sweden. In the National Museum, Stockholm, 1900 catalogue, No. 618."[2]

This scene is very similar to other paintings Ruisdael made of Egmond aan Zee and these were perhaps popular because the townsfolk already knew that erosion was threatening their village and had moved their homes and businesses further inland. The choir of the church was already in ruins and the tower was in use as a beacon for ships. Storms had steadily eroded the coast since a major flood in 1570, and in the 18th century, the village as it is depicted here definitely disappeared in the waves. As a ghost town, it was something of an early tourist attraction. Today the modern town is also threatened, as the coast is still eroding further eastwards.

* National Gallery

* Currier Museum of Art

* Kelvingrove Art Gallery (#47 as mentioned by Hofstede de Groot)

## See also

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* List of paintings by Jacob van Ruisdael

## References

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1. ^ "A View of Egmond aan Zee" Art UK. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
2. ^ Entry 50 for ''View of Egmond aan Zee in Hofstede de Groot, 1911

* View of Egmond aan Zee in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), the Netherlands Institute for Art History

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Jacob van Ruisdael

Paintings|

* List of paintings
* Landscape with a Cottage and Trees (1646)
* Landscape with a Windmill (1646)
* Wooded Dunes (1646)
* Landscape with a Windmill near a Town Moat (1650s)
* View of Bentheim Castle (1650s)
* Rough Sea at a Jetty (1650s)
* Storm Off a Sea Coast (1670)
* View of Egmond aan Zee (1650s)
* Evening Landscape: A Windmill by a Stream (unknown)
* Two Watermills and an Open Sluice near Singraven (c. 1650)
* The Jewish Cemetery (1650s)
* Two Mills (1650s)
* Dune Landscape near Haarlem (c. 1647–1653)
* Bentheim Castle (Dublin) (1653)
* Two Water Mills with an Open Sluice (1653)
* View of the Binnenamstel at Amsterdam (c. 1652–1660)
* A Thatch-Roofed House with a Water Mill (c. 1660)
* The Watermill (c. 1660)
* The Arrival of Cornelis de Graeff and Members of His Family at Soestdijk, His Country Estate (c. 1660) (with Thomas de Keyser)
* Entrance to a Forest (1660s)
* Landscape with Waterfall (1660s)
* A Waterfall in a Rocky Landscape (c. 1660)
* Winter View of the Hekelveld in Amsterdam (1660s)
* The Ray of Light (c. 1665)
* A Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Church (c. 1665)
* A Wooded Marsh (1660s)
* Waterfall in a Mountainous Landscape with a Ruined Castle (c. 1665–1670)
* Wheat Fields (c. 1670)
* Mountainous Landscape with a Torrent (1670s)
* Winter Landscape near Haarlem (1670s)
* View of Haarlem from the Northwest, with the Bleaching Fields in the Foreground (1670s)
* Panoramic view of the Amstel looking toward Amsterdam (c. 1671–1681)
* Mountain Landscape with a Watermill (c. 1675–1679)
* View of Haarlem with Bleaching Fields (c. 1670–1675)
* Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede (c. 1670)
* View on the Amstel from Amsteldijk (c. 1680)

Painting series|

* View of the Dam and Damrak at Amsterdam
* Frick Collection
* Boymans van Beuningen
* Mauritshuis

Etchings|

* Grainfield at the Edge of a Wood
* Forest Marsh with Travellers on a Bank

Related|

* Isaack van Ruisdael (father)
* Haerlempjes

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* RKD ID

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