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View of Haarlem with Bleaching Fields
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View of Haarlem with Bleaching Fields (c. 1670–1675) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdael.
It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the collection of the Kunsthaus Zürich.
This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1911, who wrote; "92. The Haarlem Bleaching-Grounds. In the left foreground is a marshy pool surrounded with trees. A road leads from it up a hill towards the
left. Biesboer noticed also that this painting displays many more trees, which is logical because the park Haarlemmerhout is situated there.
In the same article a few other paintings are mentioned, including a Ruisdael view of Haarlem bleaching fields in the collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, which shows the ruins of Huis ter Kleef, also shown from the same perspective in a painting in the musée Jacquemart-André. He was able to trace the bleachery "Clercq and Beeck" situated on the Kleverlaan shown in the right