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Description: | From the Leiden School, Dou, who trained with Rembrandt, developed his own distinct style, adopting both a smaller scale and lighter palette. The precise handling of every minute detail is known as 'fijnschilderij'. An image of a figure viewed through an arched window with rounded top was called 'nisstuk' or 'vensternis' in the seventeenth century and was first used by Gerrit Dou in the 1640s. The papers and sleeve jutting over the ledge into the viewer's space was a device first used in the Renaissance and again common in Dou's work. This work is a copy of a painting dated 1671 now in Dresden. | Subjects: | figure; allegory (education); animal (bird); interior; everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Dou, Gerrit (Dutch painter and draftsman, 1613-1675) Æ After | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8878... | Go to resource |
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