Arte & architettura. Musée d'Orsay.

With an Essay by Charles Neider. Philadelphia - London, Courage Books 1993, cm.14,5x21,5, pp.320, hardcover, dustjacket.

Merrell Publisher 1988, 2 volumi cm.21x30, he drawings from this period display an unparallelled diversity of styles, subject matter and materials. Draughtsmen were in the forefront of developments that also took Dutch painting by storm. They left the security of their studios to go out into the countryside to draw nature as it really was. The quintessentially Dutch landscapes of Claes Jansz Visscher, Jan and Esaias van de Velde, Jan van Goyen and Pieter Molijn are the result of that close study of reality, as are the scenes of classical ruins bathed in southern sunlight by artists who visited Italy, like Cornelis van Poelenburch and Herman van Swanevelt.