A Forest Marsh with Travelers on a Bank, 1651-1655, Jacob van Ruisdael, Dutch, 1628 or 1629–1682, 7 1/8 × 10 9/16 in. ( × cm) (plate, sheet, trimmed at edges)7 3/8 × 10 3/4 in. ( × cm) (mount, strips along edges of sheet), Etching and drypoint, Netherlands, 17th century, Jacob van Ruisdael is among the most highly regarded landscape artists of Holland’s Golden Age. He was a prolific painter and made about a dozen etchings. In The Travelers, he wielded the etching needle with exceptional freedom and expressive force, a departure from the delicacy normally seen in the work

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