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March 22, 2014 by Max Distro LLC Leave a Comment

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

July 12, 2012 by Max Distro LLC 5 Comments

Vermeer Louvre, Paris

The Astronomer. Vermeer, Louvre

The Astronomer. Vermeer, Louvre

For me and apparently many others, Vermeer is a guilty pleasure. His paintings are so few and so small that it is hard to get enough of them. I sometimes find myself looking, when we travel, to see if any museums in the area have a Vermeer. Fortunately for me, the Louvre has two. I often wonder why a similar small masterpiece, the Mona Lisa has such a large crowd perpetually glued to it's location while these two small, but exquisite paintings are usually left to themselves. If you visit the Louvre, spend time with with these paintings, the pleasure will last long after you leave. Normally I photograph with the frame, but because these are so small, so beautiful and so loved by everyone, I have enlarged just the painting for both.

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Filed Under: Painting, Paris, The Louvre Tagged With: Museums, Painting, The Astronomer, The Lacemaker, The Louvre, Vermeer

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