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Plundering Soldiers near a Cottage
Adriaen van de Velde, 1669
The world we enter here is quite different from Adriaen van de Velde’s sunny, carefree Dutch Arcadia. This is the world of military mayhem, death, and plundering. In Van de Velde’s time this world was always close by: throughout most of the 17th century parts of Europe were stricken by seemingly neverending acts of war.
- Artwork typedrawing
- Object numberRP-T-1902-A-4602
- Dimensionsheight 189 mm x width 234 mm
- Physical characteristicspen in bruin, penseel in grijs