The Dutch School, 1600-1900
National Gallery Catalogues
Neil MacLaren and Christopher Brown
London, 1991
Online extracts from this catalogue
- Hendrick ter Brugghen, 'The Concert'
- Aelbert Cuyp, 'River Landscape with Horseman and Peasants'
- Frans Hals, 'Young Man holding a Skull (Vanitas)'
- Meindert Hobbema, 'The Avenue at Middelharnis'
- Gerrit van Honthorst, 'Saint Sebastian'
- Pieter de Hooch, 'The Courtyard of a House in Delft'
- Willem Kalf, 'Still Life with Drinking-Horn'
- Thomas de Keyser, 'Portrait of Constantijn Huygens and his (?) Clerk'
- Judith Leyster, 'A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel'
- Rembrandt, 'A Woman bathing in a Stream (Hendrickje Stoffels?)'
- Rembrandt, 'Belshazzar's Feast'
- Rembrandt, 'Portrait of Jacob Trip'
- Rembrandt, 'Portrait of Margaretha de Geer, Wife of Jacob Trip'
- Rembrandt, 'Self Portrait at the Age of 34'
- Rembrandt, 'Self Portrait at the Age of 63'
- Jacob van Ruisdael, 'A Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Church'
- Pieter Saenredam, 'The Interior of the Grote Kerk at Haarlem'
- Jan Steen, 'The Effects of Intemperance'
- Willem van de Velde, 'Dutch Vessels Inshore and Men Bathing'
- Johannes Vermeer, 'A Young Woman seated at a Virginal'
- Johannes Vermeer, 'A Young Woman standing at a Virginal'
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