(bapt Rotterdam, 20 Dec 1629; bur Amsterdam, 24 March 1684).
Dutch
painter. He was one of the most accomplished 17th-century Dutch genre painters,
excelling in the depiction of highly ordered interiors with domestic themes and
merry companies and pioneering the depiction of genre scenes set in a sunlit
courtyard. The hallmarks of his art are an unequalled responsiveness to subtle
effects of daylight, and views to adjoining spaces, either through a doorway or
a window, offering spatial as well as psychological release.
Musical Party in a Courtyard
1677
Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 68.5 cm
National Gallery, London
Woman Reading a Letter
1664
Oil on canvas, 55 x 55 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
The Morning of a Young man
Oil on wood, 40 x 53 cm
Pushkin Museum, Moscow
Card Players at a Table
1670-74
Oil on canvas, 107 x 93 cm
Private collection
The Mother
c. 1660
Oil on canvas, 52,5 x 61 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Mother Lacing Her Bodice beside a Cradle
1659-60
Oil on canvas, 92 x 100 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Woman Peeling Apples
c. 1663
Oil on canvas, 71 x 54 cm
Wallace Collection, London
Suckling Mother and Maid
1670-75
Oil on canvas, 64 x 76 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room
1658
Oil on canvas, 76,2 x 66,1 cm
Royal Collection, Windsor
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