On View In: Gallery 311 Artist:   Salomon van Ruysdael   Title:   River Landscape with a Ferry   Date:   1656   Medium:   Oil on canvas   Dimensions:   41 1/2 x 52 7/8 x 1 1/8 in. (105.41 x 134.3 x 2.86 cm) (canvas) 67 in. (170.18 cm) (diagonal)   Credit Line:   The William Hood Dunwoody Fund   Location:   Gallery 311   Artist/Creator(s)      Name:   van Ruysdael, Salomon   Nationality:   Dutch   Life Dates:   Dutch, ca. 1602 - 1670     Object Description      Inscriptions:   Signature and Date Right center (on the ferry boat): [S.VRoysDAEL, 1656] Seal on verso LC (fully intact wax seal): [Galerie Sedelmeyer Paris] Stamp on verso LLC (aged and y   Classification:   Painting   Physical Description:   Dutch landscape. Golden Age of Holland. A wide river with various river craft, which stretches across the width of the canvas and flows to meet the horizon. In the far right distance, a village can be seen through a gentle mist, while on the wooded bank to the left, a cart filled with singing and shouting peasants stands before a row of cottages. As they wave to the boatload of passengers approaching the shore, a ferryboat loaded with cattle pushes off. Further upstream, a boat in full sail carries its passengers toward the distant hamlet with its church steeple.   Creation Place:   Europe, Netherlands   Accession #:   45.9   Owner:   The Minneapolis Institute of Arts