"The exhibition presents the finest and most characteristic examples of landscape paintings, drawings and watercolours by Dutch artists of two bygone centuries. They have been selected from numerous public and private collections in the Netherlands and other countries. The artists share an intense love of nature, a love no less fervent than that of their predecessors of the Dutch Golden Age, to whom the Rijksmuseum devoted the exhibition Masters of 17th-century Dutch landscape painting in 1987-88. Now, ten years later, it is the turn of the generations that followed." "The catalogue of On country roads and fields runs the gamut of such varied phenomena as the painted wall decorations of the 18th century, the Romantic landscapes of Koekkoek and Schelfhout in the middle of the 19th century, the impressionist renderings of the Hague School, represented by Roelofs, Mauve and Weissenbruch, and ending around the turn of the century with the innovatory ideas of artists like Toorop, Van Gogh, Sluijters and Mondriaan. No matter where the artists found their inspiration - in Italy, in the Dutch polders or simply in a view seen through a window - each and every one of the more than hundred masterpieces radiates a profound and intimate relationship with the landscape."--BOOK JACKET.
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