Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

In the seventeenth century, Dutch merchants sailed across seas and oceans, joining trade networks that stretched from Asia to the Americas and Africa. Dutch Art in a Global Age brings together paintings by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Gerrit Dou, Jacob van Ruisdael, Maria Schalcken, and other celebrated artists, joined by four Dutch paintings from the Kimbell’s permanent collection, along with prints, maps, and stunning decorative objects in silver, porcelain, glass, and more, from the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries. The exhibition also contextualizes seventeenth-century Dutch art within the complex histories of colonial expansion, wealth disparity, and the transatlantic slave trade during this period. Tues.-Thurs. & Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri. 12-8 p.m. Sun. 12-5 p.m. Closed Mon. Permanent exhibition is free.

Image: Gerrit Dou, “Dog at Rest,” 1650, oil on panel, 6 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2 in. (16.5 x 21.6 cm). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Promised gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art, L-R 250.2017. Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston