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March 22, 2014 by Max Distro LLC

Gerrit/Gérard Dou, Dutch Golden Age Painter

Gerrit Dou Self Portrait by Gerrit Dou, 1660-1665. Louvre, Paris

Gerrit Dou Self Portrait by Gerrit Dou, 1660-1665. Louvre, Paris

I have been meaning to expand my coverage of painters, particularly Flemish painters from the Dutch “Golden Age” and I have decided to begin with another of my favorites, Gerrit Dou (1613-1675). He created exquisite small, often dark paintings that often remind us of his contemporaries. These posts will cover paintings from multiple museums, rather than focusing on a single collection. After learning to paint from his father, a glass engraver, Gerrit Dou was apprenticed to a distinguished printmaker and glass painter, receiving additional formal artistic training from the Leiden glaziers' guild. At 15, he was appointed to the enviable position of apprentice in Rembrandt's studio, where he studied for six years. After Rembrandt left Leiden in 1631, his influence on Dou waned. Dou continued to paint on wood in a small scale but adopted cooler colors and a more highly refined technique characteristic of the fijnschilders (fine painters), a group of Leiden artists who painted small, highly finished pictures. Portraits in impasto gave way to domestic genre subjects (everyday scenes), enamel-smooth and rich in accessory details. These paintings are small, remember that you can click on any image in this website to enlarge them.

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Filed Under: Museums, Painting, The Louvre Tagged With: 17th Century, Eddy de Jongh, Erwin Panofsky, Fijnschilders, Fine Painters, Gérard Dou, Gerrit Dou, Getty Center, Golden Age of Dutch Painting, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Kurt Buzard MD, Leiden, Rembrandt, Rembrandt van Rijn, The Louvre, Trompe l’oeil, Vermeer, Wallace Collection

February 17, 2014 by Max Distro LLC

Rembrandt. Getty Center, Los Angeles, California

Rembrandt Laughing by Rembrandt van Rijn 1628. Getty Center, Los Angeles, California

Rembrandt Laughing by Rembrandt van Rijn 1628. Getty Center, Los Angeles, California

When we were at the Getty Center, I was surprised to see a lovely collection of Rembrandts and particularly this recently famous self portrait done early in his career, painted on copper. A crucial aspect of Rembrandt's development was his intense study of people, objects, and their surroundings “from life,” as is obvious in paintings as his early self-portraits and the Saint Paul in Prison of 1627. Even by Dutch standards, Rembrandt's preoccupation with direct observation was exceptional and continued throughout his career. This painting captures the universal emotion of laughter and joi de vivre of life which contrasts so sharply with his later self portraits. Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum said “The Getty Museum possesses the most significant collection of early Rembrandts in the United States, and if you had asked what addition would best cap it off, the answer would have been a self-portrait, which many regard as his greatest and most sustained achievement. But the chances of finding such a work seemed negligible, until the rediscovery of this painting in 2007. It is unquestionably one of the most remarkable works of art to become available in recent memory.”

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Filed Under: California, Museums, Painting Tagged With: Brentwood, California, Flemish, Getty Center, Kurt Buzard MD, Los Angeles, Painting, Rembrandt, Rembrandt Laughing, Rembrandt van Rijn

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