Oil on canvas 37 1/4 x 51 in. (94.6 x 129.5 cm)

Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950 (50.145.22)

Signed (lower right): m. Hobbema

Edward Coxe, London (until 1807; his sale, London, April 25, 1807, no. 64, for £588 to Baron Feversham) Charles Duncombe, later 1st Baron Feversham, Duncombe Park, ...

Oil on wood 29 1/2 x 43 3/8 in. (74.9 x 110.2 cm)

Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913 (14.40.614)

Signed (lower right): m [Ho]bb[ema]

[Thomas Emmerson, London, imported and sold to Lucy] John Lucy, Charlecote Park, Warwickshire (by 1835) Baron Lionel de Rothschild, London (in 1878) [Sedelmeyer, ...

Dutch artists of the Golden Age increasingly turned their skill for detailed observation to portraying their country and its people. Some, such as Steen and Ter Borch, specialized in scenes of everyday life, while others, such as Ruisdael, Hobbema, and Cuyp, sought to capture the look and feel of the land.

Vivian Gordon

Free with Museum admission

7:00 p.m., Tours Sign, Great Hall

Exhibition dates: September 18, 2007 – January 6, 2008

Exhibition location: Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor

... Johannes Vermeer. Also in the collection are exceptional groups of Dutch landscape painting (by Jacob van Ruisdael, Meindert Hobbema, Aelbert Cuyp, and other masters) and of genre pictures (scenes of everyday life), still lifes, marine views, ...

2007-09-27