The work of Michiel Carrée is one of the special pleasures of seventeenth-century Dutch drawing. His paintings are conventional variations on the formula for Italianate Dutch landscapes, with cattle and sheep wandering among fountains and classical statues - a formula established by his master Nicolaes Berchem and other artists of his generation. It is in his drawings that Carrée comes into his own. This sheet, with its charmingly chaotic mixture of Dutch windmill, Rhine landscape, and Italianate natural arch, is typical for him. The outpouring of detail, with an equal variety of human and animal activity, is matched by Carrée's quick and energetic touch and summary descriptions of figures, clouds, and hills. Aside from his Arcadian views of cattle in Italian fields, he did many drawings, and paintings, of monkeys imitating humans, stag hunts, deer parks, and deer resting or playing. Back to Gallery