Floor plan

West wing: Old MastersThe Dutch Golden Age

The Dutch Golden Age

A work made of oil on panel.
The Witch (Night Piece), by Jan van de Velde II, 1626
A work made of engraving in black on cream laid paper.
Study of a Tulip (Wit en root boode), by Pieter Holsteyn II, c. 1645
Landscape with a Windmill, by Jacob van Ruisdael, 1646
A Young Man with a Chain, by Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1629 or 1632
A work made of engraving in black on cream laid paper.
A work made of oil on panel.

The works in this room are listed below.

Works in this room

Seventeenth-century painting from the Dutch Republic: still lifes, interiors, portraits and flat, wide skies.

North wall

  1. A work made of oil on panel.
    Breakfast Still LifeWillem Claesz. Heda, 1647Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. The Witch (Night Piece), by Jan van de Velde II, 1626
    The Witch (Night Piece)Jan van de Velde II, 1626Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  3. A work made of engraving in black on cream laid paper.
    The Apollo Belvedere, plate 3 from Three Famous Antique SculpturesHendrick Goltzius, c. 1592, printed c. 1617Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  4. Study of a Tulip (Wit en root boode), by Pieter Holsteyn II, c. 1645
    Study of a Tulip (Wit en root boode)Pieter Holsteyn II, c. 1645Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art

East wall

  1. Landscape with a Windmill, by Jacob van Ruisdael, 1646
    Landscape with a WindmillJacob van Ruisdael, 1646Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  2. A Young Man with a Chain, by Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1629 or 1632
    A Young Man with a ChainRembrandt van Rijn, c. 1629 or 1632Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  3. A work made of engraving in black on cream laid paper.
    Drunken SilenusJonas Suyderhoef, 1642Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  4. A work made of oil on panel.
    Still LifePieter Claesz, c. 1625Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

West wall

  1. A work made of engraving on three joined sheets of ivory laid paper.
    The Wedding of Cupid and PsycheHendrick Goltzius, 1587Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. A work made of oil on panel.
    The Judgement of ZaleucusOtto van Veen, c. 1605Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  3. A work made of pen and brown ink, heightened with lead white (partly discolored), over black chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper.
    ApolloJan Harmensz. Muller, c. 1600-1620Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  4. A work made of oil on copper.
    David Slaying GoliathDutch, 1600–50Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

South wall

  1. Sleeping Peasants near Fields (Parable of the Weeds), by Simon de Vlieger, 1650–53
    Sleeping Peasants near Fields (Parable of the Weeds)Simon de Vlieger, 1650–53Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  2. A work made of engraving on ivory laid paper.
    Hercules Slaying the HydraJan Harmensz. Muller, c. 1602Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  3. Interior of a Church, by Emanuel de Witte, c. 1680
    Interior of a ChurchEmanuel de Witte, c. 1680Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  4. A work made of engraving in black on cream laid paper.
    Christ Raises the Dead Son of the Widow of NainJacob Matham, 1593/94Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago