Table (waterfall In A Landscape)

very beautiful Dutch school this landscape with the waterfall is astonishing of balance and power, poetry and luminosity. The calm water that suddenly turns into a bubbling torrent is characteristic of Ruisdael's virtuosity in portraying the movements of water and light. The composition is split in two, the vehemence of the swirling water of the lower part responding to the luminous clarity of a sky partially cleared by the movement of the clouds. The richness of the foliage and the play of lights in their sometimes dark masses, The viewer enters the canvas, carried away by the rustle of the water in the foreground and drawn into the distance by the breakthrough of light between the trees. d after Jacob van Ruisdael Haarlem