<p>Gerrit Dou, an early pupil of Rembrandt, was one of the most highly esteemed Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, celebrated for the extraordinarily sensitive images he created with his fine and delicate technique. This beautiful book assembles and discusses thirty-five of his finest paintings. Founder of the Leiden school of fijnschilders, or "fine painters", Dou had an international clientele and was lauded by the theorist Philips Angel in his 1642 treatise Lof der Schilderkonst as an artist worthy of the honour accorded the ancients. The book presents a wide range of subjects painted by Dou over the course of his career. These include portraiture, still life, and religious images as well as scenes of daily life - mothers with their children, painters in their studios, scholars, shopkeepers, schoolmasters, musicians, and astronomers. Many of these works incorporate symbolic elements that Dou used to reflect the complexity of life's moral and ethical dilemmas. This book is the c</p>

Gerrit Dou, 1613-1675: Master Painter in the Age of Rembrandt

Arts & Photography

Wheelock, Arthur K.

Mauritshuis (Hague, Netherlands)

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Baer, Ronni

Boersma, Annetje

Dou, Gerard

Dulwich Picture Gallery

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Natl Gallery of Art

This gem of a museum, housed in a graceful seventeenth-century lake-side mansion in The Hague, has a fine collection of Dutch and Flemish art. King William I gave the collection to the Dutch state after it was returned from France, and the house and its contents were officially opened as a museum in 1822. Among its treasures are self portraits by Rembrandt as well as The anatomy lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp, Vermeer's View of Delft (recently restored), and paintings by Holbein, Rubens, Frans Hals and Van Dyck. Also present are some of the finest examples of landscape and still life paintings to have been produced in the Dutch Golden Age.

The Mauritshuis Museum: Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis and Gallery Prince William V

Buvelot, Quentin

Museum Senior Curators

Broos, B. P. J.

Havell, Jane

Sothebys Pubns

<p>This gem of a museum, housed in a graceful seventeenth-century lake-side mansion in The Hague, has a fine collection of Dutch and Flemish art. King William I gave the collection to the Dutch state after it was returned from France, and the house and its contents were officially opened as a museum in 1822. Among its treasures are self portraits by Rembrandt as well as The anatomy lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp, Vermeer's View of Delft (recently restored), and paintings by Holbein, Rubens, Frans Hals and Van Dyck. Also present are some of the finest examples of landscape and still life paintings to have been produced in the Dutch Golden Age.</p>

The Mauritshuis: Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis and Gallery Prince William V

Distributed in Canada and the USA by Antique Collectors' Club

Princely Patrons: The Collection of Frederick Henry of Orange and Amalia of Solms in the Hague

Ploeg, Peter Van Der

Vermeeren, Carola

History & Criticism

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