Jacob van Ruisdael Works Online
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago
Jacob van Ruisdael at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
4 works online
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
11 works by van Ruisdael
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
4 works online by van Ruisdael
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Norwegian Landscape with Waterfall (Zoom)
Jacob van Ruisdael at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Ray of Sunlight, 1660s
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Jacob van Ruisdael at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
National Gallery, London, UK
A Waterfall by a Cottage in a Hilly Landscape
National Gallery, London, UK
Jacob van Ruisdael at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Jacob van Ruisdael
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Jacob van Ruisdael at the Prado Museum, Madrid
Landscape, 1650
Jacob van Ruisdael at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
8 works online
Jacob van Ruisdael at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
14 works by Jacob van Ruisdael online
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
3 works online
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Landscape with a mill-run and ruins, ca.1653
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
A Marsh in a Forest at Dusk
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Cottage by a Stream
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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River Landscape with a Castle on a High Cliff
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Dune landscape
Crocker Art Museum, California
A Road in a Wood, ca.1645
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
View of Egmond-on-the-Sea, 1648
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem
A Waterfall
Frick Collection, New York City
Landscape with a Footbridge, 1652
Quay at Amsterdam, ca.1670
Glasgow Museums, Scotland
A View of Egmond aan Zee
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Landscape with Waterfall
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
A Rough Sea at a Jetty
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
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La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia
Wheatfield with Church (click "next" 3 times to see the painting)
Jacob van Ruisdael in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
3 works online
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
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Museum Bredius, Netherlands
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German)
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
The watermill
National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish)
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National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Landscape with Dune and Small Waterfall, 1646
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Wooded Landscape with Waterfall, ca.1665-70
Norwich Museums, England
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France (in French)
Le champ de blé
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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5 works by Jacob van Ruisdael online
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Marine
Paysage avec rivière
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Landscape with Waterfall, ca.1665
San Diego Museum of Art, California
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Schleswig-Holstein Museums, Germany
1 work online
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
Speed Art Museum, Kentucky
Landscape with Cottages and a Blasted Tree, 1653
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Wooded Landscape with Brook
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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Strossmayer's Old Master Gallery, Croatia
Crossing the River
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest (in Hungarian)
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest (in Hungarian)
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands (in Dutch)
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The British Museum, London, UK
The Jewish Museum, New York City
Painting from the exhibition Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
4 paintings online
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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3 paintings online
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Canal with Commercial Buildings in Winter, ca.1670
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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2 paintings online
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
View of Haarlem
USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Countryside, ca.1650s
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
1 painting, possibly by Jacob van Ruisdael
Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark (in Danish)
Virtual Uffizi
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
View on the IJ on a Stormy Day, ca.1660
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
4 works
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Keep paging forward for several paintings by Jacob van Ruisdael
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Landscape
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 433
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
Scroll down to monogram 891
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center
Artchive
CGFA
Google Art Project NEW!
The Forest Stream (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Google Art Project NEW!
Landscape with Waterfall (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
Google Art Project NEW!
View of Naarden (Museo Thyssen - Bornemisza, Madrid)
Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artpx
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Capella Academica, Vienna (in German)
The Modernist Journals Project
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jacob van Ruisdael 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
Time Magazine
"Opening a Path to Natural Vision", 1982 article by Robert Hughes
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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Jacob Van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape
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