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Dutch Genre Paintings of Everyday Life

Paintings showcasing intimate scenes from daily life in 17th-century Holland, often with a focus on domestic activities and figures.

The Interior of an Inn with Peasants Smoking. David Ryckaert III (1612-1661). Dated 1647, oil on panel, 50 x 69cm.
The Interior of an Inn with Peasants Smoking. David Ryckaert III (1612-1661). Dated 1647, oil on panel, 50 x 69cm.
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Old Woman Reading, Adriaan Meulemans, 1800 - 1833 painting Reading an old woman in a thick book (a Bible) With candlelight, with glasses on the nose. panel. oil paint (paint) reading. old woman. candlePlaying CardsAdriaen Brouwer. The Card Players. 25 x 39 cm. Oil on panel. 17th century. Museum: Royal Museum of Fine Arts, MADRID, Belgien.'A Genre Scene'. Flanders. Dimensions: 29x37,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Jan Joseph Horemans I.Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot. Two elegant in a pastry. Oil on canvas. 1801-1900. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 76090-22 Elegant, woman, pastry, dog, oil on canvasRembrandt, Paulus im Gefaengnis - - Winter Sun; Soleil d'Hiver. Henri-Adolphe Laissement (1854-1921). Oil on canvas. 73 x 92.8cm.Scene from the myth of Cupid and Psyche, 1794, by Felice Giani (1758-1823), tempera wall painting, Palazzo Laderchi, Faenza, Emilia-Romagna. Italy, 18th century.Scholars in the studio; Verstegh, Michiel (1756-1843); around 1800 (1795-00-00-1805-00-00);Suchtelen, Jan Pieter Van (1751-1836) - collection, Society of Encouragement of Fine Arts (Warsaw - 1860-1940) - collection, nocturnes, Dutch drawings, genre scenes, scientists, candles (lighting)CHICHARRO Y AGERA, Eduardo (1873-1949). The family of the anarchist on his execution day. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Complutense University of Madrid.The young painter. Dating: 1850 - 1888. Measurements: h 26 cm × w 21.4 cm × t 1 cm; d 6.5 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Pierre Joseph Toussaint.Jewish bankers, Charles Rochussen, 1868, draughtsman: Charles Rochussen, 1868, paper, brush, h 255 mm × w 358 mmWandering barber. Kuntze, Tadeusz (1727-1793), painterAndrés de la Calleja / 'The Rustic House'. XVIII century. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.Lacemaker by Nicolaes Maes (1634 - 1693); Oil on canvas; circa 1656'Carousal'. Holland, 17th century. Dimensions: 48x59,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: EGBERT VAN HEEMSKERCK.Love Note, Johannes Hendrik van West, 1838Peasants drinking wine. Molinari, Aleksander Ludwik (1805-1868), painterA tasty morsel". Sauerland, Philipp (1677-1762), painterChristophe Huet, Singerie The Sculptor, c 1739 Singerie: The SculptorBohun, both and rows in Czehryń, illustration to the poviat of Henryk Sienkiewicz's "Fire and Sword"; Piotrowski, Antoni (1853-1924); 1901 (1901-00-00-1901-00-00);Bohun (lit.), Cossacks, Rzędzian (lit.), Sienkiewicz, Henryk (1846-1916). With Fire and Sword, Witke-Jeżewski, Dominik (1862-1944)-collection, 17th century (history), 17th century (costume), Zagłoba, Jan Onufry (lit.), reading (genre scenes), Poland (culture ), illustration projects, Polish drawings, purchase (provenance)'Herring Seller'. Holland, 1670-1675. Dimensions: 41x30 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Gerard Dou (Gerrit).The Artist's Studio, 1845, Octave Tassaert, (1800-1874/French)Woman and B Azen; Venne, Adriaen van de (1589-1662); XVII century (1601-00-00-1700-00-00);Popławski, Jan (1860-1935), Popławski, Jan (1860-1935)-collections, jester, women, Dutch painting, message (provenance), bed with a canopyFamilly at table by Diego Velazquez, Oil on canvas, circa 1617-1618, 1599-1660, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage, 108, 5x102The Herring-Eater, Pieter Hermansz. Verelst, 1628 - 1650Jean Baptiste Greuze (17251805) was a French genre and portrait painter. His works are characterized as sentimental and moralistic. He was praised by Diderot. Among his best known works are Les Deux Soeurs, La Malediction paternelle, La Cruche Cassee, and LInnocence tenant deux Pigeons. In this painting, titled 'A Father handing over the Marriage-portion of his Daughter,' then 'The Village Bride,' is the best of Greuze's subject pictures. The scene is more or less naturally arranged, ad informed with tender homely sentiment inspired by the subjec. The bride, with her fresh young face and modest attitude, is a delicious figure. It was exhibited in the Salon in 1761.Talking Politics. Friedlich Friedlander (1825-1901). Oil on panel. 39.5 x 31.6cmThe Death of Buckingham, Augustus Leopold Egg, 1816-1863, British, undated, exhibited 1855, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 29 1/2 x 36 inches (74.9 x 91.4 cm), bed, bedroom, costume, curtain, death, duke, garter, genre subject, historical subject, inn, light, man, punishment, windowA Miser Garnering Treasure. Dominicus Smout (active 17th -18th Century). Oil on canvas. 68 x 59cm.'Peasants in a Tavern'. France, 1640. Dimensions: 78x94,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Simon Romero ( ).The Proposition. Jules Worms (1832-1924). Oil on canvas. 54.9 x 74.9cm.Man at a Desk c. 1800 Oil on panel Abraham van Strij; Dutch (active Dordrecht) Born 1753; died 1826Woman Holding a Balance By Jan Vermeer; c. 1662-1665 Oil on canvasThomas Hees with his Nephews Jan and Andries Hees and a Servant. Thomas Hees served as a diplomat in Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. Among other duties, he negotiated the purchase of the freedom of Dutch slaves and protested against the privateering of Dutch ships. Hees had himself portrayed in a relaxed pose, smoking, and surrounded by the treasures he had acquired in North Africa. An inscription on the back of this painting gives his servants name and age: ‘Thomas the negro,17 years old.Cabinet with the story of the Prodigal Son. Dated 17th CenturyKnifegrinder's Family, TerBorch, GerardVillage Kermesse, Cornelis Dusart, 1680 - 1704'Broken Dishes'. Sweden, 1781. Dimensions: 137x104 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Hilleström, Per, the Elder.Painting by Antoine Le Nain (born around 1588 in Laon. died 25 May 1648 in Paris), French painter, The Village Piper, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not statedAt the well by Siemiradzki, Henryk (1843-1902) State A. Radishchev Art Museum, Saratov 1895 Oil on canvas 170x100 Russia Academic art Genre PaintingThe Raffle (Raffling for the Goose) 1837 William Sidney Mount American Americas most successful painter of narrative scenes, Mount chose as his subjects various aspects of rural life in the flat Long Island landscape around Stony Brook, New York, where he lived. He managed to transcend the manifest content of his pictures to address the social and political realities of the time. "The Raffle (Raffling for the Goose)," showing an impromptu lottery, was Mounts good-humored allusion to the food shortages brought on by the financial panic of 1837.. The Raffle (Raffling for the Goose) 11627Vicente Carducho / 'La visión de Dionisio Rickel, el Cartujano', 1626-1632, Spanish School, Canvas, 336,5 cm x 297,5 cm, P05238. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.'Still Life with Dead Game'. France, 1875. Dimensions: 132x106 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Hippolyte Robillard.The painter's studio, 1855, by Gustave Courbet (1819-1877). Detail.fine arts, Hals, Dirck (1591 - 1656), painting, ""merry company"", oil on panel, 45 cm x 67,5 cm, Rhenian state museum, Bonn,Abraham Solomon, 1824-1862, British, First ClassThe Meeting. "And at first meeting loved.", 1855. Oil on panel.After Milking Time. Dating: 1825 - 1827. Measurements: h 48 cm × w 37 cm; d 10.5 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Hendrick van der Burch.Trimming bales of hay, attributed to Caspar Netscher, 1660 - 1684The Goldsmith's Workshop, painting by Alessandro Fei known as Barbiere (1543-1592), detail. Studiolo (small study) of Francesco I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Italy, 16th century.First Class - The Meeting. "And at first meeting loved.". Date/Period: 1855. Painting. Oil on panel. Height: 203 mm (7.99 in); Width: 254 mm (10 in). Author: Abraham Solomon.ANCIANO CON UN PELLEJO DE VINO (S XX). Author: MANUEL MEDINA DIAZ (1881-1955). Location: MUSEO CASA NATAL DE JOVELLANOS. Gijón. ASTURIAS. SPAIN.Man and boy at table by Pier Francesco Mola, oil on canvas, 1612-1666, Russia, Moscow , State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, 88x100Karlis Huns (1831-1877). Baltic German painter. Head of an Old Man, ca. 1872. Oil on canvas (55 x 49,5 cm). Latvian National Museum of Art. Riga, Latvia.Maid at the Window - Gerritt Dou, circa 1660The third of the artist's workshop with self -portrait; Horowitz, Leopold (1838-1917); 1868 (1868-00-00-1868-00-00);Horowitz, Leopold (1838-1917), Horowitz, Leopold (1838-1917)-iconography, self-portraits, food, pallets, painting pallets, iron stoves, portraits, portraits of artists, portraits of en Pied, Men's portraits, portraits in the interior, portraits with palette and brushes, portraits from the profile, artists' studios, realism (style), genre scenes in the interior, stools, interiors of the painting workshop, purchase (provenance)CABRERA, Miguel (1695-1768). De Castizo y Mestiza: Chamizo. Casta paintings. Mexican school. Colonial baroque. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. America's Museum.Thre caption for this image by NC Wyeth that accompanies the tale of Robinson Crusoe by Dniel Defoe reads: "My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design." Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by the English novelist Daniel Defoe and published in 1719. A fictional autobiography, it tells the tale of an English castaway named Robinson Crusoe (seen here with his father) who spent 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela before he was rescued. Newell Convers Wyeth, known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustratGenre scene at the marketplace. Saive, Jan Baptist, I (ca 1540-1624), painter"Office of the Notary (Intendant's Office. Dating: c. 1629. Measurements: support: h 75.5 cm × w 106.5 cm; d 5 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Jan Woutersz Stap.The Physician's Visit Ignacio León y Escosura (Spanish, 1834-1901). The Physician's Visit, 1881. Oil on panel, 15 3/4 x 22 1/2in. (40 x 57.2cm). European Art 1881Marinus van Reymerswaele / 'The Moneychanger and his Wife', 1539, Flemish School, Oil on panel, 83 cm x 97 cm, P02567. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.The poor poet. Date/Period: 1837. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 36.8 cm (14.4 in); Width: 45 cm (17.7 in). Author: Carl Spitzweg.Gabriel Alexandre Decamps, Italian Peasant, 1842, oil on canvas.the bagpiper and the alte. 1571. (Pieter huys; 1519 Antwerp-1581; Antwerp)Andries Benedetti / 'Table', Middle 17th century, Flemish School, Oil on canvas, 121 cm x 147 cm, P02093. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.Before the Hunt, 1883, Janez Subic, (1850-1889/Slovenian)The Patient Pet, Gustav Igler (1842-1908), Oil On Canvas, 1885Kitchen of the St. Martin's Charterhouse (Certosa di San Martino). 17th c. Painting. ITALY. CAMPANIA. Naples. San Martino National Museum.Der Tod kommt zum Schriftgiesser, Totentanz, dance of death, Todten-Tantz after Beck, Noeller a. other painters by Georg Max. Theodor Goetz, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century originalThe Wizard, 1898 Two figures in a narrow, darkened chamber. A bearded man in a heavy robes, reveals a convex mirror to a young, veiled girl, behind a drape. Artist: Edward Burne-Jones Oil on canvas, 19th CenturyPre-RaphaeliteTurkish children playing with a turtle (Souvenir de la Turquie d'Asie) by Decamps, Alexandre Gabriel (1803-1860) / Musee Conde, Chantilly / 1836 / France / Oil on canvas / Genre / 72,5x91 / OrientalismPieter Claesz. (1597/1598-1661). Dutch Golden Age painter. Still Life, 1653. Wallraf-Richartz Museum. Cologne. Germany.Gerard Dou (1613-1675), a girl with a light, 1628-1775Fernand Pelez (1848-1913). "Martyr" or "the Violets merchant". Oil on canvas, around 1883. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, Petit Palais. 25792-16 Abandonment, Decourament, Decuement, Desolation, Destress, Sleeping, collapse, child, weakness, Fatigue, Flower, Malter, Merchant, Martyr, Martyrdom, Misere, Pale, Pale, Batier, Paunt, Poverty, Rude, alone, Solitude, Violette, oil on canvasThe Wayfarer (The Prodigal Son) by Hieronymus Bosch, ca.1450-1516 Netherlandish, oil on wood panel, Netherlands, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van BeuningenFish market by Frans Snyders, oil on canvas, circa 1616-1618, 1579-1657, Russia, Moscow , State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, 134x204Young woman by Vasili Andreyevich Tropinin, Oil on canvas, 1823, 1776-1857, Russia, Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, 74, 7x59, 3Luca Giordano / 'Pilate Washes his Hands' (detail), 1655-1660, Italian School, Oil on copper, 43 cm x 66 cm, P00172. Author: LUCA GIORDANO. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. PONCIO PILATO-PILATOS-PONTIUS PILATUS.A patient at home. Oil painting by D. Mary Barber, ca. 1953.Saint Cecilia and an Angel, Orazio Gentileschi and Giovanni Lanfrancho, circa 1620, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA, North AmericaAn alchemist at his furnace, hunched over bellows. Coloured mezzotint by H. Dawe after D. Teniers the younger.Maid at the window. Date/Period: Ca. 1660. Painting. Oil on panel. Height: 38 cm (14.9 in); Width: 28 cm (11 in). Author: GERRIT DOU.The Player's Choice. Gaetano Bellei (1857-1922). Oil on canvas. 50.9 x 81.4cm.Flemish master of the seventeenth century. Young man smoking a pipe. about 1620-1630. oil painting on canvas cm 72 x 118.VAQUERA DE LOS ALREDEDORES DE OVIEDO HILANDO - SIGLO XIX - LITOGRAFIA DE MAGIN PUJADAS. Author: CABA A.Pat Lyon at the Gorge, John Neagle, 1826-1827, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass, USA, North America