Tour: Dutch Landscapes and Seascapes of the 1600s

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Overview

Seventeenth-century Netherlanders had a passion for depictions of city and countryside, either real or imaginary. Local scenery asserted Holland’s national pride, while vistas of foreign sites recalled the extent of its overseas commerce. Holland’s ocean ports teemed with fishing and trading ships, and the tiny country’s merchant fleet was almost as large as all the rest of maritime Europe’s combined. The Dutch prized seascapes and insisted on accurate renderings of each hull and rigging line. Genre incidents from everyday life animate most Dutch landscapes and seascapes.

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Captions

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1	Hendrick Avercamp, A Scene on the Ice, c. 1625
2	Ludolf Backhuysen, Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast, 1667
3	Jan van Goyen, View of Dordrecht from the Dordtse Kil, 1644
4	Meindert Hobbema, The Travelers, 166[2?]
5	Aert van der Neer, Moonlit Landscape with Bridge, probably 1648/1650
6	Jacob van Ruisdael, Forest Scene, c. 1655
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7	Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Church of Santa Maria della Febbre, Rome, 1629
8	Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Cathedral of Saint John at 's-Hertogenbosch, 1646