Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Seventeenth-Century Landscapes by Dutch Painters

Jacob van Ruisdael
Panoramic View of Amsterdam
ca. 1665-70
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Jacob van Ruisdael
Panoramic View on the Amstel looking toward Amsterdam
before 1682
oil on canvas
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

attributed to Bartholomeus Breenbergh
Ruins at Tivoli
ca. 1630
oil on copper
Watford Museum, Hertfordshire

Adriaen van der Cabel
River Landscape with a Bastion
ca. 1650-1700
oil on canvas
private collection

Jan van Goyen
Landscape with a Dune
1629
oil on panel
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Adriaen van de Velde
Three Sheep
1659
oil on canvas
Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Denmark

Adriaen van de Velde
Beach at Scheveningen
1658
oil on canvas
Museumslandschaft Hessen, Kassel

Esaias van de Velde
Landscape with Travelers crossing a Bridge
1622
oil on panel
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Jacob van Mosscher
Road near Cottages
before 1655
oil on panel
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

Adriaen van Ostade
Landscape
1639
oil on panel
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Adriaen van de Venne
Jeu de Paume before a Country Palace
ca. 1614
oil on panel
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Adriaen van de Venne
Revelers on the Ice
ca. 1615
oil on panel
private collection

Adriaen van de Venne
Merry Company in an Arbor
1615
oil on panel
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Cornelis de Man
Whale Oil Refinery on Amsterdam Island off the Coast of Spitsbergen
1639
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Carel Fabritius
View of Delft with Vendor of Musical Instruments
1652
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

from The View

No wonder there are those lights of suspicion moving
      endlessly over memory and its faces
over the way of memory itself the way
      of remembering which is the way of forgetting
the way of horizons the way beyond reach the way
      of another which appears at times to be the only way
when not one thing one moment with its heavenly
      bodies flying through unrepeated places not one
sound or shining is what it was the one time before
      it was remembered when I was in the midst of it

– W.S. Merwin (1994)