Baroque and Rococo

 

Baroque and Rococo Art Map





Gerrit Dou




 


Gerrit Dou

(b Leiden, 7 April 1613; d Leiden, bur 9 Feb 1675).

Dutch painter. The first and most famous member of the group of artists referred to as the LEIDEN ‘FINE’ PAINTERS, he specialized in small-format paintings, the details and surfaces of which are carefully observed and meticulously rendered. He was greatly praised as a painter of artificial light by Samuel van Hoogstraten in 1678, and he was responsible for popularizing both the night scene and the ‘niche’ format, pictorial devices ultimately derived from the art of his famous master, Rembrandt. Dou used them in images of ordinary people ostensibly engaged in mundane activities.


 


The Grocery Shop
1672
Oil on panel
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II


 


Woman Peeling Carrot

Oil on wood, 57,2 x 43,3 cm
Staatliches Museum, Schwerin


 


The Extraction of Tooth

1630-35
Oil on wood, 32 x 26 cm
Musee du Louvre, Paris


 

The Grocer's Shop

1647
Oil on wood, 38,5 x 29 cm
Musee du Louvre, Paris


 

Officer of the Marksman Society in Leiden

c. 1630
Oil on oak, 66 x 51 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest


 

Portrait of an Old Woman

1643-45
Oil on wood, 20 x 16 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest


 

Painter in his Studio

1647
Oil on oak, 43 x 34,5 cm
Gemaldegalerie, Dresden


 

The Prayer of the Spinner

Oil on wood, 27,7 x 28,3 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich


 

Hermit Praying
1670
Oil on panel
Minneapolis Institute of Arts


 

The Hermit
1670
Oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington