The artist borrowed from his sketches of the remnants of a church and a castle in Egmond to enhance the background of this painting.
The artist borrowed from his sketches of the remnants of a church and a castle in Egmond to enhance the background of this painting. Likewise the stream flowing through the center of the landscape and the broken stumps that overhang it were also embellishments. Of the two known versions, the one at the Detroit Institute of Arts is slightly less dreary because of the rainbow on the left end, though both it and the Dresden version feature a leafless beech tree on the right overhanging three tombs. FTP, name this Jacob van Ruisdael landscape depicting a Zionist burial ground.
The artist borrowed from his sketches of the remnants of a church and a castle in Egmond to enhance the background of this painting.
{Jewish Cemetery} or {Jewish Graveyard}