Forest Marsh with Travellers on a Bank

Forest Marsh with Travellers on a Bank (1640s-1650s), also known as The Travellers, is an etching by the Dutch Golden Age artist Jacob van Ruisdael.

[2] The cumulus clouds in the late states of the etching have been added later and are not by Ruisdael himself.

[3] Etching expert Georges Duplessis singled out The Travellers and The Cornfield as unrivalled illustrations of Ruisdael's genius.

[4] Ruisdael's pupil Meindert Hobbema painted two copies of this etching.

[5] When Constable died he owned four Ruisdael etchings, one of which was The Travellers.