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In the seventeenth century, several Dutch artists went to Rome and brought back paintings and sketches. They, and others like van Ludick, used these works as a basis for imaginary paintings of the Italian landscape with a mountainous background and a softly lit Mediterranean sky. They proved very popular with Dutch collectors and were a strong contrast to landscapes of the flat Dutch countryside. Here, van Ludick shows a high, craggy cliff with a castle on one side, the round tower of which seems to reach the clouds. On the other side the cliffs are only slightly lower, and the two seem to threaten the tiny travellers wading through the water in the chasm between them. Two elegant riders pace back and forth, perhaps waiting for them, perhaps waiting their turn to cross.
Title
A River between Rocky Cliffs, with a Waterfall on the left
Date
about 1670
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 53.5 x W 66.4 cm
Accession number
NG1007
Acquisition method
Wynn Ellis Bequest, 1876
Work type
Painting
