Jacob van Ruisdael art links 

Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Art Institute of Chicago

Jacob van Ruisdael at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
11 works by Jacob van Ruisdael

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)   NEW!  

Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague

Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague   NEW!
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project

Jacob van Ruisdael at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
6 works

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Jacob van Ruisdael at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Jacob van Ruisdael

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa  

National Gallery, London, UK   NEW!
A Waterfall by a Cottage in a Hilly Landscape

National Gallery, London, UK   NEW!

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Wooded Landscape with Waterfall, ca.1670

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

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam   NEW!
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
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")

Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (in Dutch)   NEW!  

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   NEW!
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

Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland   NEW!
3 paintings by Jacob van Ruisdael

Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland   NEW!
1 painting, possibly by Jacob van Ruisdael

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, Nebraska
You must type "ruisdael" into the top left search box and click the "GO" button

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
A Rough Sea at a Jetty

Kunsthaus Zurich

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "R"

La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia   NEW!
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

National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish)  
See the THIRD Flash presentation on the page: rollover + scroll thumbnails

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Landscape with Dune and Small Waterfall, 1646

Norwich Museums, England

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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5 works by Jacob van Ruisdael online

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey   NEW!

Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Austria
Norwegian landscape with Waterfall

Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)   NEW!  

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
Requires Flash: Click on "Artist Index", then on "R"

Schleswig-Holstein Museums, Germany
1 work online

Jacob van Ruisdael at the 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

Strossmayer's Old Master Gallery, Croatia
Crossing the River

Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest (in Hungarian)  

Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest (in Hungarian)  

The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)   NEW!  

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   NEW!
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3 paintings online

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid   NEW!
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Canal with Commercial Buildings in Winter, ca.1670

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid   NEW!
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2 paintings online

Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
View of Haarlem

USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles   NEW!
Countryside, ca.1650s

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)   NEW!
Keep paging forward for several paintings by Jacob van Ruisdael

UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)   NEW!
Landscape

 

Art Renewal Center

Artchive  

CGFA  

Web Gallery of Art  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Artpx

Artyzm

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site   NEW!

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 

Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
Scroll down to monogram 891

Capella Academica, Vienna (in German)  

The Modernist Journals Project

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jacob van Ruisdael  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

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)   NEW!  

Time Magazine
"Opening a Path to Natural Vision", 1982 article by Robert Hughes

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside Jacob Van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape