Landscape with a Windmill Near a Town Moat
Artist	Jacob van Ruisdael
Year	1650s
Dimensions	63 cm × 76.5 cm (25 in × 30.1 in)
Location	Private collection

Landscape with a Windmill Near a Town Moat (c. 1650s) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in a private collection.

This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1911, who wrote; "174. LANDSCAPE WITH A WIND-MILL. Sm. 135. A town-moat stretches from the distance to the foreground, which it almost fills. In the immediate right foreground is the reedy bank with a wooden bridge. Farther back are brick walls, the remains of a sluice, which are connected by planks. A man with a dog crosses to the left bank which is thickly planted with trees. Near the bank is a boat on the water. In the middle distance is a man in a flat-bottomed boat on the sunlit water. Farther back is a wooden drawbridge over the moat to the town, above whose wall rise house-roofs and a great wooden mill. A fine summer day with clouds in the sky. More or less in the style of Hobbema. The figures are by Ruisdael himself. An attractive picture. Canvas, 25 inches by 30 1/2 inches. Engraved by J. H. Wright in the Stafford Gallery. In the collection of Lord Francis Egerton, London, 1835 (Sm.). In the collection of the Earl of Ellesmere, Bridgewater House, London, 1892 catalogue, No. 197."^[1]

This painting was documented in earlier estate sale catalogs of Pieter Locquet and Jan Gildemeester and Hofstede de Groot therefore listed it also as #16, though at the time he didn't know it was the same painting as his #174.

• List of paintings by Jacob van Ruisdael

• Entry 16 for View on the Ramparts of Amsterdam in Hofstede de Groot, 1911
• Smith Catalog # 135
• Seymour Slive 2001, catalog #133

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Paintings	List of paintings Landscape with a Cottage and Trees (1646) Landscape with a Windmill (1646) Wooded Dunes (1646) Landscape with a Windmill near a Town Moat (1650s) View of Bentheim Castle (1650s) Rough Sea at a Jetty (1650s) Storm Off a Sea Coast (1670) View of Egmond aan Zee (1650s) Evening Landscape: A Windmill by a Stream (unknown) Two Watermills and an Open Sluice near Singraven (c. 1650) The Jewish Cemetery (1650s) Two Mills (1650s) Dune Landscape near Haarlem (c. 1647-1653) Bentheim Castle (Dublin) (1653) Two Water Mills with an Open Sluice (1653) View of the Binnenamstel at Amsterdam (c. 1652-1660) A Thatch-Roofed House with a Water Mill (c. 1660) The Watermill (c. 1660) The Arrival of Cornelis de Graeff and Members of His Family at Soestdijk, His Country Estate (c. 1660) (with Thomas de Keyser) Entrance to a Forest (1660s) Landscape with Waterfall (1660s) A Waterfall in a Rocky Landscape (c. 1660) Winter View of the Hekelveld in Amsterdam (1660s) The Ray of Light (c. 1665) A Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Church ( c. 1665) A Wooded Marsh (1660s) Waterfall in a Mountainous Landscape with a Ruined Castle (c. 1665-1670) Wheat Fields (c. 1670) Mountainous Landscape with a Torrent (1670s) Winter Landscape near Haarlem (1670s) View of Haarlem from the Northwest, with the Bleaching Fields in the Foreground (1670s) Panoramic view of the Amstel looking toward Amsterdam (c. 1671-1681) Mountain Landscape with a Watermill (c. 1675-1679) View of Haarlem with Bleaching Fields (c. 1670-1675) Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede (c. 1670) View on the Amstel from Amsteldijk (c. 1680)
Painting series	View of the Dam and Damrak at Amsterdam Frick Collection Boymans van Beuningen Mauritshuis
Etchings	Grainfield at the Edge of a Wood Forest Marsh with Travellers on a Bank
Related	Isaack van Ruisdael (father) Haerlempjes
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