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.
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