Jacob van Ruisdael (1628/29-1682) is arguably the best known landscape artist of the Golden Age. Around 1650 a development occurred in his work which was to radically change the character of the Dutch landscape. Particularly in his paintings which depict the German castle of Bentheim, you notice that the artist has manipulated reality in a most brilliant fashion. Now in the exhibition Greetings from Bentheim, Jacob van Ruisdael at the Mauritshuis, The Hague, the painter's finest scenes of Bentheim have been drawn together. This is the first time an exhibition has been devoted to this specific theme of Van Ruisdael's oeuvre.