This summer the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam 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. They come from private collections and from museums including the Louvre, the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Kassel, Museo Thyssen Bornemisza Madrid, the Mauritshuis and the British Museum. Here is a small selection:
A Recumbent Cow and Three Sheep, Adriaen van de Velde, c. 1671
The beach at Scheveningen, Adriaen van de Velde, 1658.
Couple in a Landscape, Adriaen van de Velde, 1667.