Two Undershot Watermills with Men Opening a Sluice

painting by Jacob van Ruisdael
VisualArtwork painting Q20804345
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Summary

Two Undershot Watermills with Men Opening a Sluice is a painting[1]. It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]

Key Facts

  • Creator: Jacob van Ruisdael[3]
  • Country: United Kingdom[4]
  • Owned by: John Enrico Fattorini[5]
  • Genre: landscape painting[6]
  • Based on: Two Watermills and an Open Sluice[7]
  • Depicts: watermill[8], lock[9], man[10]
  • Made from material: oil paint[11], panel[12]
  • Location: London[13]
  • Catalog code: 23-1[14], 115[15], 152[16], 163[17], 171[18], 107[19], 111[20]
  • Inception: 1650[21]
  • Described at URL: http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2004/old-master-paintings-part-one-l04033/lot.23.html[22]
  • Location of creation: Haarlem[23]
  • Depicts Iconclass notation: 47G314[24], 25G4(REED)[25], 25H[26], 25H216[27], 41A362:47G541[28], 25G3(+371)[29], 47D41[30], 25H221[31], 25H155[32], 25H212[33]
  • Title: Gezicht op twee watermolens met daartussen een sluis[34]
  • Height: 54[35]
  • Width: 68[36]
  • Copyright status: public domain[37]

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Class ancestry

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  1. 7w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Location of creation → Haarlem
    Catalog code → 23-1, 115, 152 +4
    Genre → landscape painting
    Width → {'amount': '+68'}
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