Tour: Dutch Still Lifes and Landscapes of the 1600s

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Paintings depicting aspects of the natural world were so characteristic of the Netherlands that, during the seventeenth century, the Dutch words stilleven and landschap were adopted into English as "still life" and "landscape." Before the mid-1600s, though, the Dutch themselves usually referred to pictures by their individual subjects such as "breakfast piece" or "winter snow scene." (continue)

Captions

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1	Willem van Aelst, Still Life with Dead Game, 1661
2	Aelbert Cuyp, The Maas at Dordrecht, c. 1650
3	Aelbert Cuyp, Lady and Gentleman on Horseback, c. 1655, reworked 1660/1665
4	Willem Claesz Heda, Banquet Piece with Mince Pie, 1635
5	Jan Davidsz de Heem, Vase of Flowers, c. 1660
6	Jan van der Heyden, An Architectural Fantasy, c. 1670
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7	Abraham Mignon, Still Life with Fruit, Fish, and a Nest, c. 1675
8	Isack van Ostade, Workmen before an Inn, 1645