Master of the Dutch Landscape
This summer the Rijksmuseum is staging the first ever major retrospective of work by Adriaen van de Velde (1636-1672), one of the greatest landscape painters of the Golden Age. The exhibition features sixty paintings, preliminary studies and drawings by the talented artist, who died tragically young. Read more.
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Two Studies of a Shepherd lying down (1667), Adriaen van de Velde. Rijksmuseum Collection
Hilly Landscape with a High Road (1660-72), Adriaen van de Velde. Rijksmuseum Collection
Couple in a Landscape (1667), Adriaen van de Velde. Rijksmuseum Collection. On loan from Amsterdam City Council
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