Past Exhibitions: 2005

The Golden Age of Dutch Prints

Dec. 24, 2005–March 26, 2006

This grouping of exquisite prints includes recent additions to UMMA's strong holdings in Dutch seventeenth-century collection. In an age of exploration and discovery, master printmakers such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Cornelis Dusart, Hendrik Goudt, Adriaen van Ostade, and Jan van de Velde II took a variety of approaches to representing the world around them and the stories informing their cultures. The astonishing variety of their subjects—landscapes, animals, genre scenes, still-lifes, portraits, mythological and religious narratives—attests to the wide curiosity of these artists, their fascination with their surroundings as well as faraway places, and their sense of cultural identity.

Rembrandt van Rijn 1606-1669 Rembrandt in Velvet Cap and Plume 1638 Etching Gift of the Estate of Alfred E. Pernt, 1974/2.38

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