Room 99

Dutch Golden Age

1627–1675, The Netherlands (Haarlem, Leiden, Dordrecht, Delft), Baroque

In the seventeenth century the young Dutch Republic’s pictures were bought not only by church and nobility but by citizens, merchants and craftsmen. Painters specialised: Jan van Goyen and Jacob van Ruisdael in dunes, rivers and woods under wide skies, Aelbert Cuyp in cattle in golden evening light, Pieter de Hooch in quiet courtyards and rooms, Jan Steen in merry, chaotic feasts.

All works

• Forest Scene
• River Landscape with Cows
• The Dancing Couple
• The Bedroom
• View of Dordrecht from the Dordtse Kil
• Dunes by the Sea
• Landscape with Herdsmen
• Ascagnes and Lucelle (The Music Lesson)
• A Dutch Courtyard
• View of Dordrecht from the North
• Country House in a Park
• A Pier Overlooking Dordrecht
• The Greeting
• View of Rhenen
• Landscape
• Lady and Gentleman on Horseback
• Woman and Child in a Courtyard
• Ice Scene near a Wooden Observation Tower
• Old Trees along a Bank
• Herdsmen Tending Cattle
• River Landscape
• A Forest Marsh with Travelers on a Bank (The Travelers)
• The Maas at Dordrecht
• Cottage by a River
• The Little Bridge
• Horsemen and Herdsmen with Cattle
• Sailboat on an Estuary
• Cottage on a Hill
• Panoramic Landscape along the Rhine
• River Landscape with a Distant Bridge
• Grain Field at the Edge of a Wood (Corn Field)
• Horseman among the Dunes
• The Three Oaks
• Houses by a Road
• A Tavern by a River
• Wayside Inn