Wheat Fields
Artist: Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628–1682)
Original Dimensions: 39 3/8" x 51 1/4"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (ca. 1670) "Twenty-seven views of fields by Ruisdael survive today. In this celebrated example, the artist used the building blocks of land, sky, and sea to create an imposing vision of cultivated nature. On the road before us, a man with a traveler’s pack approaches a woman and child, while the cumulus clouds dominating the sky add their own element of drama. A glimpse of boats at sea on the far left knits this quintessentially Dutch landscape into the wider world." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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