Dutch Italianates: 17th Century Masterpieces from the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

April 11 – June 21, 2009
The Fresno Metropolitan Museum is very pleased to present an exhibition of 17th Century Dutch Masters on loan from the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, England.

These 40 influential paintings were originally collected for a King and were bequeathed to the Dulwich, known as “the greatest small museum in Europe.” The exhibit’s world tour makes a stop in Fresno, CA. It is only the second time in the Dulwich’s two hundred year history that an exhibit was loaned to the United States.

Displaying lavish still lifes, revealing self-portraits, insightful portraiture, humble and reverent genre works, and masterful cityscapes and seascapes, this exhibition powerfully captures the vivid images of daily life in The Netherlands during the 17th century – a period often referred to as "The Golden Age.”

Culture and economics of the time promoted visual arts with guilds for training artists. Holland boasted a very large artist population that developed to meet the need. In the past artists relied mostly on commissions. Artists now marketed their work to would be buyers. Artists would sketch outdoors and paint in studios.
These Dutch Masters established decisively that landscape painting was a full fledged and independent member in the hierarchy of painting while showing everyday life.

Aelbert CUYP
(1620 – 1691)
An Evening Ride near a River

“This selection of works from the permanent collection has been lent by permission of the Trustees of Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. Exhibition tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC.”

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Comment by Merlin Robertson on April 25, 2009 at 9:32am

awesome!