Scarsellino Landscape with Abraham and Isaac before 1620 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
Jacob van Ruisdael Panoramic view on the Amstel looking toward Amsterdam before 1682 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
Pietro da Cortona Landscape with Mary Magdalene ca. 1630 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
Jan Wijnants Hilly landscape with hawking party ca. 1665 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
The Hawk
Call down the hawk from the air –
Let him be hooded or caged
Till the yellow eye has grown mild.
For larder and spit are bare,
The old cook enraged,
The scullion gone wild.
I will not be clapped in a hood,
Nor a cage, nor alight upon wrist,
Now I have learnt to be proud
Hovering over the wood
In the broken mist
Or tumbling cloud.
What tumbling cloud did you cleave,
Yellow-eyed hawk of the mind,
Last evening, that I, who had sat
Dumbfounded before a knave
Should give to my friend
A pretence of wit?
– William Butler Yeats (1916)
Adriaen van de Velde Landscape with figures and livestock 1664 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
Pieter Molijn Landscape with figures ca. 1655-60 oil on panel Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
Pierre Patel Landscape with classical ruins ca. 1640-45 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
Jan van der Heyden The Stone Bridge, Amsterdam ca. 1660-72 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Jacob van der Ulft Italian landscape with riders before 1689 watercolor Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Anonymous French artist River scene by moonlight ca. 1675-1700 oil on panel (formerly in the Orléans collection, with an attribution to Adam Elsheimer) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
attributed to Sébastien Bourdon Classical ruins with figures ca. 1634-37 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
Gaspard Dughet Landscape near Rome before 1675 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
Willem Romeyn Classical landscape with travelers and livestock ca. 1650-95 oil on canvas Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
Jan Asselijn The breach of the Saint Anthony's Dike near Amsterdam 1651 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |