View of Bentheim Castle [SEP] creator
View of Bentheim Castle
View of Bentheim Castle (c. 1650s) is an oil on canvas painting of Burg Bentheim by the Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael.
It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the collection of the Rijksmuseum.
This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1911, who wrote; "21. THE CASTLE OF BENTHEIM. Sm. 16. The castle 
stands in the left middle distance on the rocky summit of a hill. To the right is a
. The etching expert Georges Duplessis singled out "Grainfield at the Edge of a Wood" and "The Travellers" as unrivalled illustrations of Ruisdael's genius.
Work Middle period.
Following Ruisdael's trip to Germany, his landscapes took on a more heroic character, with forms becoming larger and more prominent. A view of "Bentheim Castle", dated 1653, is just one of a dozen of Ruisdael's depictions of a particular castle in Germany, almost all of which pronounce its position on a hilltop. Significantly,