Landscape with a Village in the Distance, 1646, Oil on wood, 30 x 43 in. (76. 2 x 109. 2 cm), Paintings, Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, Haarlem 1628/29?1682 Amsterdam), This ambitious picture is one of nine known landscape paintings that bear the earliest date found on works by Van Ruisdael, 1646. At the time the artist was about eighteen years old. Youthful exuberance and some losses of paint and glazes combine to make the topography in the foreground somewhat unclear