Various animals. Herdsman and bull., Adriaen van de Velde, artist, 1659, Netherlands, etching, The Dutch Golden Age artist Adriaen van de Velde (1636-72) first studied with his father Willem van de Velde the Elder, then trained with a landscapist in Haarlem. He produced his first known works, six etchings, in 1653 and had returned to Amsterdam by 1657. Van de Velde's varied body of paintings, drawings, and prints comprises primarily of small landscapes in sparkling light softened by the haze of the nearby sea, with people and animals playing an important part.

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