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Bernhard David Hausmann

German, 1784 - 1873

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Water laps at a curving shoreline in front of a steep sandy dune carpeted in grass, shrubs, and trees in this horizontal landscape painting. The dune takes up the lower right quadrant of the composition. A few broken tree trunks are overgrown with vines and plants across the top and down the sloping side of the dune facing us. A red brick wall cuts through the vegetation up the side of the dune and disappears into the shrubbery at the top. The twisting branches and canopies of three large trees reach into the upper right quadrant of the composition. The vegetation stops abruptly along the sheer edge of the dune where it faces the water. The land curves like a backward capital letter C so it almost reaches the left edge of the painting along the horizon, which comes a quarter of the way up the composition. A cow and three more animals, perhaps sheep or more cows, graze or lie on a grassy mound in the distance, and sailboats line the horizon in the deep distance. White ripples swirl in the steel-blue water. The artist signed and dated the lower center, “J Ruisdael . 1648.”
Jacob van Ruisdael, Dunes by the Sea, 1648, oil on panel, The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund, 2017.55.1

Dunes by the Sea

Jacob van Ruisdael · 1648 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  2017.55.1

Albrecht Dürer, Satyr Family, 1505, engraving on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.3562

Satyr Family

Albrecht Dürer · 1505 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.3562

Albrecht Dürer, The Prodigal Son, c. 1496, engraving on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.3459

The Prodigal Son

Albrecht Dürer · c. 1496 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.3459

Albrecht Dürer, The Dream of the Doctor (Temptation of the Idler), 1498/1499, engraving on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.3481

The Dream of the Doctor (Temptation of the Idler)

Albrecht Dürer · 1498/1499 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.3481

Albrecht Altdorfer, Saint George, c. 1515/1518, engraving on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.392

Saint George

Albrecht Altdorfer · c. 1515/1518 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.392