A Thatch-Roofed House with a Water Mill

A Thatch-Roofed House with a Water Mill, also known as Water Mill near a Farm, is a 17th-century oil on panel painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob van Ruisdael. It is in the collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.^[1]^[2]

English painter John Constable saw the painting in 1826 and wrote "It haunts my mind and clings to my heart".^[3]

The painting is catalogue number 121 in Seymour Slive's 2001 catalogue raisonné of Ruisdael.^[1] The painting is number 165 in the 1911 catalogue raisonné by art historian Hofstede de Groot, ^[4] and number 2025 in the museum's catalogue. Its dimensions are 36 cm x 42 cm. It is monogrammed in the lower left.^[1] It is not dated, but Slive writes it is dateable to about 1653. The monogram uses two different hues to give a three dimensional effect, a technique Ruisdael applied in a few other paintings that were actually dated 1652 and 1653.^[3] Museum Boymans van Beuningen dates it circa 1660.^[2]

It was restored in 1997.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Slive 2001, p. 140.
^ ^a ^b "Water mill near a farm". Boymans van Beuningen.
^ ^a ^b Slive 2001, p. 141.
^ Hofstede de Groot 1911, p. 81.

Bibliography

Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis (1911). Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten Holländischen Mahler des XVII. Jahrhunderts [A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century] (in German). Vol. 4. Esslingen, Germany: Paul Neff. OCLC 2923803.
Slive, Seymour (2001). Jacob van Ruisdael: a Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08972-1.