Previously On View
Watershed: Transforming the Landscape in Early Modern Dutch Art
Date
February 8, 2025 - July 26, 2025
A selection of approximately 40 paintings, prints, and drawings from the BMA’s collection explores the role of water and landscape in defining the early modern Dutch Republic.
The water’s edge was a site of rich and often fraught ideas, where environmental, economic, political, and social narratives came to the fore. It also served as a site of immense inspiration for Dutch artists such as Frans Hals, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob van Ruisdael, and Salomon Van Ruysdael, among many others. Landscapes depicting harbors, trade, travel, and leisure abounded, as did the production of maps, still lifes, and portraits. Together, these images offer insight into the identity of the young Dutch Republic.
Presented as part of the Turn Again to the Earth environmental initiative.
Curated by Lara Yeager-Crasselt, Curator and Department Head of European Painting and Sculpture.
Sponsored By
This exhibition is supported by Dutch Culture USA, part of the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the Netherland-America Foundation.
Gallery Images
Location
The Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs
Select Artworks in this Exhibition
Claes Jansz Visscher
Rustic Buildings beside a River
c. 1605-1615
Salomon van Ruysdael
Landscape on the River Meuse
1643
Jacob van Ruisdael
Landscape with Waterfall
c. 1660-1670
Jan Josephsz van Goyen
View of Rhenen
1656
Frans Hals
Dorothea Berck, Wife of Joseph Coymans
1644
Rembrandt van Rijn
View of Amsterdam from the Kadijk
c. 1641
Jan van Aken
Fishermen Catching Crayfish on the Rhine
c. 1650
Jan Almeloveen
Winter
c. 1680
Adriaen Collaert
America
c. 1600
Albert Flamen
Title Plate from the series “Several Salt Water Fish Species, Part I”
1635-1669
Albert Flamen
The Sardine
1635-1669
Albert Flamen
The Virgin
1635-1669
Albert Flamen
The Salmon
1635-1669
Adriaen Collaert
The Whale Hunt
1582
Adriaen Collaert
Fishing for Tuna
1582
Adriaen Collaert
Fishing with Nets
1582
Adriaen Collaert
Fishing with Fishing Lines
1582
Johann Sadeler I
Africa
1581
Johann Sadeler I
America
1581
Johann Sadeler I
Asia
1581
Johann Sadeler I
Europa
1581
Rembrandt van Rijn
The Windmill
1641
Rembrandt van Rijn
Six’s Bridge
1645
Rembrandt van Rijn
Canal with a Large Boat and a Bridge (“Het schuytje op de voorgrond”)
1650
Rembrandt van Rijn
View of the Diemerdijk with a Milkman and Cottages (“Het Melkboertje”)
c. 1650
Theodor Galle
The Discovery of America
c. 1580s; reprinted c. 1630
Cornlis Hendriksz Vroom
Wooded Landscape
1648-1649
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel
Figures Waiting to Ice Skate
1766
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel
Paysage avec Cours d’Eau
1775
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel
Ships near a City
1768
Magdelena van de Passe
Elijah Overlooking Beach with Fisherman
c. 1635
Magdelena van de Passe
Elijah and a Stormy Sea
c. 1635
Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy
Portrait of a Man
1626
Wenceslaus Hollar
Snipeis Bill Murex (murex haustellum)
c. 1646
Balthasar van der Ast
A Tulip, a Carnation and Roses, with Shells and Insects, on a Ledge
1630s
Wenceslaus Hollar
Summer: Bathing Place
c. 1629
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel
Ships in Port
1759
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Related Events
Thursday, May 1 | 2-4:30 p.m.
Watershed: A Study Day at Johns Hopkins University
Wednesday, May 28 | 5:30-7:30 p.m.
PDPS Talk & Reception: Turn Again to the Earth