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Dutch Baroque

Dutch Baroque Events

1628
to 1630
Frans Hals Paints The Gypsy Girl
"What a joy it is to see a Frans Hals, how different it is from the paintings – so many of them – where everything is carefully smoothed out in the same manner." —Vincent Van Gogh
1629 Judith Leyster Paints Serenade
Leyster was particularly innovative in her domestic genre scenes. In them, she creates quiet scenes of women at home, which were not a popular theme in Holland until the 1650s. Much of he...
1630 Judith Leyster Paints Self-Portrait
The show’s centerpiece, a self-portrait from 1632-33, is a delight, lively and ingratiating. Leyster turns away from a half-finished canvas to greet the viewer, resting an arm on the back...
1630 Rembrandt Paints Jeremiah Mourns the Destruction of Jerusalem
After his initial training in his native town of Leiden, Rembrandt spent a short but crucially important period in the studio of the history painter Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam. He then r...
1631 Rembrandt Paints Andromeda Chained to the Rocks
Andromeda Chained to the Rock was painted by Rembrandt in 1631. Currently this work resides in Mauritshuis, in The Hague. Andromeda represents Rembrandt's first full length mythologica...
1632 Rembrandt Paints Jacob de Gheyn III
Jacob de Gheyn III, also known as Jacob III de Gheyn, is a 1632 oil painting by Rembrandt. The portrait is of Dutch engraver Jacob de Gheyn III and is part of a pair. The other piece is a...
1632 Rembrandt Paints The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is a 1632 oil painting by Rembrandt housed in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, the Netherlands. Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is pictured explaining the...
1633 Frans Hals Paints Pieter van den Broecke
In this portrait there is a perfect match of a painter's style to the sitter. Hals's bold, direct manner is ideally suited to portrayal of the Antwerp-born colonial trader Pieter van den ...
1634 Rembrandt Paints Artemisia
Artemisia Receiving Mausolus' Ashes (also known as Sophonisba Receiving the Poisoned Cup) is a painting by the Dutch master Rembrandt. It is housed in the Museo del Prado of Madrid, Spain...
1635 Rembrandt Paints The Prodigal Son in the Tavern
As early as 1749 this painting was described as a portrait of Rembrandt and his wife Saskia. The young lady looking over her shoulder resembles a silverpoint portrait that Rembrandt drew ...
1636
to 1638
Rembrandt Paints Belshazzar's Feast
Rembrandt shows the moment when a divine hand appeared and wrote on the wall a phrase only Daniel could decipher. When transliterated the inscription reads: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. T...
1636 Rembrandt Paints Danaë
Danaë is Rembrandt's painting from the collection of Pierre Crozat which from the 18th century resides in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. It depicts the character Danaë from Greek m...
1640 Ferdinand Bol Paints Portrait of Elisabeth Bas
Elisabeth Bas (1571, Kampen - 2 August 1649, Amsterdam) was a figure in the Dutch Republic. She was the wife of Jochem Hendricksz. Swartenhont. Swartenhont was a captain in the navy of...
1642 Rembrandt Paints Night Watch
Night Watch or The Night Watch (Dutch: De Nachtwacht) is the common name of one of the most famous works by Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. The painting may be more prope...
1645
to 1648
Rembrandt Paints The Mill
The Mill is a painting by Dutch baroque artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. It is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. For a long time, the attr...
1652 Carel Fabritius Paints A View of Delft
Carel Fabritius (bapt. Feb 27, 1622, Middenbeemster - Oct 12, 1654, Delft) was a Dutch painter and one of Rembrandt's most gifted pupils. Fabritius was born in the ten-year old Beemste...
1653 Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael Paints Bentheim Castle
A magnificent view of the Castle of Bentheim (which is located in Bad Bentheim in Lower-Saxony), dated 1654, suggests that his wanderings extended to Germany. In his last period, from abo...
1653
to 1656
Johannes Vermeer Paints Diana and Her Companions
In this evocative mythological painting, Diana sits with her companions near the edge of a dark and impenetrable forest. As evening falls she gazes unseeingly into the distance while one ...
1653 Rembrandt Paints Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer
Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer is a painting by Rembrandt van Rijn. It was painted in 1653, as a commission from Don Antonio Ruffo, from Messina in Sicily, who did not know the p...
1654 Rembrandt Paints Bathsheba at Her Bath
Bathsheba at Her Bath is an oil painting of Bathsheba by Rembrandt from 1654. The model was Rembrandt's partner Hendrickje Stoffels. She is known to have died young and the shadow on her ...
1655 Johannes Vermeer Paints Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary is a painting finished in 1655 by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is housed in the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. Not currentl...
1655
to 1660
Johannes Vermeer Paints Officer and Laughing Girl
Because the costume of the girl (upper right) and the painting techniques resemble those of the Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, this painting is generally dated about 1658, short...
1656 Johannes Vermeer Paints The Procuress
Signed at the lower right corner, in dark brown color: i v Meer. 1656 (ivM in ligature). The support is a hand-woven linen with a threat count of 14x12 per cm2 (warp/weft), a piece attach...
1657 Johannes Vermeer Paints A Girl Asleep
A Girl Asleep, also known as A Woman Asleep at Table, is a painting by the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, 1657. It is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City. This pa...
1657 Johannes Vermeer Paints Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window
The picture was acquired in 1724 by August III, elector of Saxony, together with a number of other paintings bought in Paris. The seller threw in the picture as a present, to sweeten the ...
1657
to 1661
Johannes Vermeer Paints The Little Street
According to architectural historians, Vermeer shows a house which dates from the second half of the 15th c. or the beginning of the 16th c. The area in which Vermeer's view was likely si...
1658
to 1659
Johannes Vermeer Paints Girl Interrupted at Her Music
Music-making, a recurring subject in Vermeer’s interior scenes, was associated in the seventeenth century with courtship. In this painting of a duet or music lesson momentarily interrupte...
1658
to 1661
Johannes Vermeer Paints The Milkmaid
The effect of three-dimensionality is particularly evident in the modeling of the woman's head and body. Small touches of paint - white, light ocher, reddish brown, brown, greenish gray -...
1658
to 1660
Johannes Vermeer Paints The Wine Glass
The Wine Glass (Dutch: Het glas wijn, also known as The Glass of Wine or Lady and Gentleman Drinking Wine) is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer that portrays a seated woman ...
1658 Willem Claeszoon Heda Paints Still Life with Pie, Silver Ewer and Crab
Willem Claeszoon Heda (December 14, 1594, Haarlem - c. 1680, Haarlem) was one of the earliest Dutch artists devoted exclusively to the painting of still life. Still Life with Pie, Silver...
1659
to 1660
Johannes Vermeer Paints The Girl with a Wineglass
The woman's openly expressive face is somewhat atypical for Vermeer who tends to convey his sitters' hidden emotions through their discreet gestures and nature of their activity. One earl...
1660
to 1661
Johannes Vermeer Paints View of Delft
The composition was built up in light and dark passages. The sky, foreground, and light parts of the water are laid in with lead white while the town and its reflection were left in reser...
1660 Rembrandt Paints Ahasuerus and Haman at the Feast of Esther
The subject is an episode from chapters 5-7 of the book of Esther in the Old Testament. Haman, counciller to the king Ahasuerus, proposed to hang Mordechai for not paying him respect by s...
1661
to 1662
Rembrandt Paints The Conspiracy of the Batavians under Claudius Civilis
The Conspiracy of the Batavians under Claudius Civilis is the name of Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn's great painting, originally intended for the new Amsterdam Town Hall. That had alread...
1662
to 1668
Johannes Vermeer Paints The Art of Painting
Few paintings in the entire history of art seem as perfect as this one. Vermeer's extraordinary technical mastery, the crystal-clear light which illuminates the scene, the purity of the v...
1662
to 1664
Johannes Vermeer Paints The Music Lesson
On the far side of a sunlit room with double windows a young woman stands to play on a clavecin. A man in elegant dress watches her and listens intently. Both figures are quiet and statue...
1662
to 1663
Johannes Vermeer Paints Woman Holding a Balance
Until recently this painting was best known as The Goldweigher or Girl Weighing Pearls. Microscopic analysis, however, has revealed the pans of the balance to be empty. The highlight on t...
1662
to 1665
Johannes Vermeer Paints Woman in Blue Reading a Letter
The Woman in Blue Reading a Letter is a painting finished around 1663-1664 by the Dutch Baroque painter Johannes Vermeer. It is housed in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. As in the Girl with...
1662
to 1664
Johannes Vermeer Paints Woman with a Lute
In this work of the early 1660s, a young woman in an ermine-trimmed jacket plays a lute and looks intently out the window. The viola da gamba on the floor and songbooks on the table sugge...
1662
to 1665
Johannes Vermeer Paints Woman with a Pearl Necklace
Over an off-white ground, black underpainting indicates shadows in the woman's back. An ocher layer top of the ground may cover the entire painting. It is not covered by any other paint l...
1662 Rembrandt Paints Sampling Officials of the Drapers' Guild
Rembrandt brilliantly exploits horizontals - a classical rather than a Baroque device - for the unification of the group. Three horizontals run through the picture at almost equal interva...
1663 Ferdinand Bol Paints Governors of the Wine Merchant's Guild of Amsterdam
Ferdinand Bol (June 24, 1616 – August 24, 1680) was a Dutch artist, etcher, and draftsman. Although his surviving work is rare, it displays Rembrandt's influence; like his master, Bol fav...
1664
to 1665
Johannes Vermeer Paints Woman with a Water Jug
Woman with a Water Jug, also known as Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, is a painting finished between 1660-1662 by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer in the Baroque style. It is oil on c...
1665
to 1667
Johannes Vermeer Paints Girl with a Pearl Earring
The painting Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Het Meisje met de Parel) is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's masterworks and as the name implies, uses a pearl earring for a focal po...
1665
to 1666
Johannes Vermeer Paints Girl with a Red Hat
Aside from the expectant expression on the young woman's face, much of the vivacity of this extraordinary painting stems from the manner which it is painted. The reflections of light take...
1665
to 1674
Johannes Vermeer Paints Portrait of a Young Woman
In the 1696 sale catalogue of paintings owned by Jacob Dissius, the son-in-law of Vermeer's patron Pieter van Ruijven, "a tronie in antique dress, uncommonly artful" is listed as number 3...
1665
to 1666
Johannes Vermeer Paints The Concert
The similarities between The Concert and The Music Lesson are such that they have often been dated at the same time. Both the conception of the scene and the painting techniques of The Co...
1666
to 1667
Johannes Vermeer Paints Mistress and Maid
The servant's interrogative gaze (detail left) is vivid, while the expression, the crucial expression, of the mistress is more obscure, partly because of the turn of her head, partly beca...
1667
to 1670
Johannes Vermeer Paints The Love Letter
The subject of this painting is love. This is evident in the presence of musical references (the instrument held by the woman and the musical score on the chair in the foreground) which w...
1667 Rembrandt Paints The Jewish Bride
The Jewish Bride (Dutch: Het Joodse bruidje) is a painting by Rembrandt, executed around 1667. The painting gained its current name in the early 19th century, when an Amsterdam art col...