With their love of concrete detail, Netherlandish artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Anthony van Dyck, Lambert Doomer, and Jacob van Ruisdael pioneered the practice of taking sketching trips to memorialize travels or to record the immediate environment. Rembrandt was especially fond of sketching in and just outside of Amsterdam. During the 1700s, the beauties of nature were artificially created in garden settings close to home, as depicted in drawings by Francois Boucher and Jean-Baptist Oudry. As a whole, the drawings in this exhibition represent the long evolving human need to escape into nature as a retreat from strife and as a haven for creativity. No parking reservations needed on Saturdays and Sundays or after 4 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays.
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