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

The Dutch Italianates: Seventeenth-Century Masterpieces from the Dulwich Picture Gallery, Londonthrows a spotlight on a remarkable but little-seen genre: Italian landscapes of the 17^th century as seen through the eyes of some of the most accomplished Dutch artists of the Golden Age. The exhibition features a group of 40 paintings from a collection formed for a king, highlighting masterpieces by Aelbert Cuyp, Nicolaes Berchem, Karel Dujardin, Philips Wouwermans, and Adam Pynacker. These artists were at the height of their powers and reputation, and their groundbreaking work profoundly influenced the 18^th century French and English aesthetic, and even carried over to 19^th century America.

Unlike most of the foreign painters who flocked to Italy in the 17^th century, the Dutch Italianates developed their own, hybrid style of picturesque landscape art. Their works, which combined Italian light, landscapes, and marble ruins with closely observed peasant life of the sort favored by artists of the Dutch Golden Age, were absolutely unique and turned out to be wildly influential. For the burgeoning middle class of 17^th century Holland—which had just begun to expand its global reach—bucolic scenes of the sun-dappled Roman campagna and hills were an ideal respite from the flat, windswept, often cloudy vistas of their own country. For almost two centuries, Dutch Italianate landscapes were among the most celebrated and widely collected in the genre, both in Europe and America.

This exhibition offers an exceptional opportunity to view masterworks from the world-class collection of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, a collection formed originally for a king (Stanislaus Augustus, the last king of Poland) that has been called the best small museum in all of Europe.

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