{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O132138"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O132138/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006BH7735/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006BH7735/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2006BH7735","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2016JJ2342","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2016JJ2344","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2016JJ2345","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2016JJ2346","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O132138/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O132138","accessionNumber":"582-1870","objectType":"Oil painting","titles":[{"title":"Landscape with a town in the middle distance","type":"generic title"}],"summaryDescription":"This painting was formerly attributed to the foremost landscape painter of the latter half of the seventeenth century, Jacob van Ruisdael, in a Museum catalogue of 1893. However as Michael Kauffmann noted in his Catalogue of Foreign Paintings (London: 1973) the ‘painting is so badly rubbed and so extensively repainted that an attempt at attribution would seem impossible’. Nonetheless, the general composition of the painting is in keeping with the style of landscape produced by Dutch painters throughout the seventeenth century. The only area of the painting to retain its original character is the lower-left foreground, which appears to show some of the contrasts of light typical of Ruisdael’s work, which marked a departure from the tonal landscapes of the earlier seventeenth century.    ","physicalDescription":"Painting of a landscape with a bridge over water in the foreground of the image. In the mid-ground is a town, and in the background is a green landscape.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"oil paint","id":"AAT15050"},{"text":"oak","id":"AAT12264"}],"techniques":[{"text":"oil painting","id":"AAT178684"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Oil on oak panel","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"},{"text":"Landscapes","id":"THES250800"}],"styles":[{"text":"Dutch School","id":"x31259"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006BH7735","2016JJ2342","2016JJ2344","2016JJ2345","2016JJ2346"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"A","id":"THES304506"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"oil paintings","id":"AAT33799"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"17th century","earliest":"1600-01-01","latest":"1700-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by John M. Parsons","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"47.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"estimate","note":"Frame dims: 630 x 793 x 45 mm. Measured by RH Dec 2013."},{"dimension":"Width","value":"72.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"estimate","note":""},{"dimension":"","value":"","unit":"","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":"Measurement taken at time of assessment prior to BH decant - Frame Dimensions (mm): H-630 W-795 D-45;\nPainting Dimensions (mm): not measured"}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from <i>Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I. Before 1800</i>, C.M. Kauffmann, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1973","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Bequeathed by John M. Parsons, 1870","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Oil painting, 'Landscape with a Town in the Middle Distance', Dutch School, 17th century","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Kauffmann, C.M., <u>Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I. Before 1800</u>, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973, p. 94, cat. no. 98"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Ulrike Gehring and Peter Weibel, eds., <u>Mapping spaces : networks of knowledge in 17th century landscape painting</u> Karlsruhe : ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art ; Hirmer, 2014; Karlsruhe : Hirmer Verlag, [2014]; 504 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 30 cm. ISBN: 3777422304 / 9783777422305\r\n5"}],"production":"Formerly attributed to Jacob van Ruisdael (1893), this painting is so badly rubbed and extensively repainted that an attempt at an attribution is all but impossible.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"Landscape","id":"x31100"},{"text":"towns","id":"AAT8375"},{"text":"rivers","id":"AAT8707"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["582-1870"],"accessionNumberNum":"582","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1870,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-08-13","recordCreationDate":"2007-02-20","availableToBook":true}}