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Genre Scenes from the Dutch Golden Age

Depictions of everyday life and social gatherings, showcasing the vibrancy and complexity of 17th-century Dutch society.

At the Police Station. Carl Henrik Unker (1828-1866). Oil on canvas. Signed and dated Dusseldorf 1857. 93.5 x 138.5cm
At the Police Station. Carl Henrik Unker (1828-1866). Oil on canvas. Signed and dated Dusseldorf 1857. 93.5 x 138.5cm
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Fete Champetre by Dirck Hals, oil on wood, 1627, 1591-1656, Holland, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 77,6x135,7Country fair, by Lucas van Valkenborch ca (1530-1597).IndependenceDay. Artist: John Califano, American, 1864-1924Forfeits. George Bernard O'Neill (1828-1917). Oil on panel. Signed and dated 1872. 39 x 53.5cm.Johann Liss, The Satyr and the Peasant, possibly c 1623 1626 The Satyr and the PeasantAndrés de la Calleja / 'Woman With a Child On Her Back, Conversing with Two Men'. XVIII century. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.Apostles by Michelangelo Caravaggio, oil on canvas, 1599-1600, 1571-1610, Roman School, Italy, Rome, Contarelli Chapel in San Luigi dei Francesi, 328x348The Fete Champetre, by Dirck Hals, 1627, Dutch painting, oil on panel. Beautifully dressed men and women eat, drink and make merry at a Fete Champetre, an outdoor garden party. This one takes place usually in aristocratic estate landscaped to accommodate the festivities. The artist adds a moralizing symbol with the chained monkey: it stands for sinful man, who allows himself to be fettered by his base instincts (BSLOC_2016_3_120)The Fortune-Teller. Artist: Georges de La Tour (French, Vic-sur-Seille 1593-1653 Lunéville). Dimensions: 40 1/8 x 48 5/8 in. (101.9 x 123.5 cm). Date: probably 1630s.While an old gypsy crone tells his fortune, a naive youth is robbed by her accomplices, a subject popular among Caravaggesque painters throughout Europe in the seventeenth century. La Tour's painting can be interpreted as a genre or theatrical scene, or as an allusion to the parable of the prodigal son. The inscription on the painting includes the name of the town where La Tour lived, Lunéville in Lorraine. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.A Nocturnal Banquet. In 1613, the Dutch parliament (States General) commissioned Otto van Veen to paint twelve paintings depicting the revolt of the Batavians against the Romans in AD 69 and 70. These were displayed in Binnenhof, the central government building in The Hague. In the early years of the Dutch Republic, many compared their own revolt against Spain to the Batavian uprising.Juan Correa de Vivar / 'Pilate Washes his Hands', 1540-1545, Spanish School, Panel, P00668. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.The extraction of the stone of madness, by Hieronymus Bosch (ca 1450-1516).Travelling salesman. Lubieniecki, Krzysztof (1659-1729), painterWatercolor and ink painting by Erzherzogin Marie Christine Habsburg-Lothringen depicting an Obsandel scene, using cover colors and white highlights, 18th century.Luca Carlevaris (1663-1729), The Arrival of the 4th Earl of Manchester, in Venice, 22 September 1707, (detail) around 1707 Oil on canvasView of a market place. Low countries port town, see shipping top left background. Housewives shopping for food and domestic wares. Artist, Hendrick Van Steenwyck the Elder (c1500-1603). Oil on wood. Private collection.Banquet at the Crossbowmen s Guild in Celebration of Münster Banquet at the Crossbowmen s Guild in Celebration of Münster, Bartholomeus van der Helst, oil on canvas, 1648, Amsterdam, Netherlands Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 21627764The Minute Men. Edwin Howland Blashfield (1848-1936). Oil on canvas. 65.5 x 93cmAn Elegant Company. Pieter Codde; Dutch, 1599-1678. Date: 1632. Dimensions: 58.8 × 92.7 cm (23 1/8 × 36 1/2 in.). Oil on panel. Origin: Holland. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.Generic scene against the background of Venice; Morelli, Domenico (1823-1901); 2. PO. 19th century (1850-00-00-1899-00-00);Kierbeziowa, Eugenia (1855-1946), Kierbeziowa, Eugenia (1855-1946)-collection, Venice (Italy), gift (provenance), Italian painting, musicians, genre scenesJean-Francois de Troy (1679-1752) 'Le Repas de Chasse' also known as 'Le dejeuner de Chasse' (The Death of a stag, disappeared) in the dining room of the king's small apartments in Fontainebleau . Date 1737. oil on canvasHunting Party in the Courtyard of a Country House; 1665-70; Oil on canvas Ludolf Leendertsz de Jongh; Dutch; 1616-79Vintage Scene and Peasant Children Dancing (painting pair), 1650s. Circle of Le Nain (French). Oil on canvas; framed: 111 x 142 x 8 cm (43 11/16 x 55 7/8 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 92 x 121 cm (36 1/4 x 47 5/8 in.). The mid-17th century saw revived interest in representations of the lower classes. Artists like the Le Nain brothers in France painted scenes that looked back to the Renaissance tradition of pastoral imagery. The Le Nain often depicted ordinary country folk going about their daily business, subjects and figures they remembered from their childhood in rural Laon. Considered a companion piece to Peasant Children Dancing (1958.175.2), Vintage Scene has also been attributed to the Master of the Béguins, a Flemish artist who worked in the manner of the Le Nain in Paris. Here, good-natured though bawdy males drink in the background shade, while at center a sweet-faced young woman surrounded by chubby children flashes the viewer a coy smile that reveals her awareness of the slowly cWashing with Ashes, Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759-1817, British, undated, Pen and black ink and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 2 3/8 × 3 inches (6 × 7.6 cm), building, clothesline, genre subject, laundry baskets, sheets, washing, womenin May; unknown, Steen, Jan (1626-1679); 19th century (1801-00-00-1900-00-00);Lachnicki, Cyprian (1824-1906) - collection, gift (provenance), Dutch painting, genre scenes, holidaysJan Daemen Cool (Rotterdam 1589 - Rotterdam 1660), Portrait of Century Eeuwoutsz. Prince and his family, group portrait portrait painting sculpture wood oil panel, Landscape rectangular portrait of family group in landscape depicting Eeuwout Eeuwoutsz. Prince Brewer his wife Catharina Keyser and three children Anna Eeuwout and Adriaen (with snap cock) Prins, Ewout Prins E.WZ. and Catharina Keyzer Adr.dr. with their 3 children Anna Ewout and Adriaan Prins family Prins Rotterdam City Triangle Haringvliet Adriaen Prins This painting belonged to series that was hanging around 1760 in the upper portal of the house of Adriaen Prins (1692-1780) on the south side of the Haringvliet.The Four Elements: Water. A Fish Market with the Miraculous Draught of Fishes in the Background. Date/Period: 1569. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 158.5 cm (62.4 in); Width: 215 cm (84.6 in). Author: JOACHIM BEUCKELAER.Josep Obiols / "Tabla de cambio" (Table of change) (detail), 20th century, Painting.History of Spain. Mutiny of Aranjuez (17-19 March 1808). A small group led by members of the fernandino party (noble people nearby to the Prince of Asturias) was heaped front to the Royal Palace and assaulted Godoy's House, looting, burning and destroying all kinds of belongings. On the morning of 19 March groups of people went to Godoy's house in Barquillo Street, in Madrid. The Prince of Peace guided by a faithful servant. Chromolithography. "Historia Universal", by Cesar Cantu. Volume IX, 1881.Watermelon seller and fireworks in Rome. Kuntze, Tadeusz (1727-1793), painterThe Drawing Gallery of the Felix Meritis Society. Founded in 1777, the Amsterdam society called Felix Meritis (Happy through Merit’) grew into the cultural centre for the upper middle class. It had five depart-ments: commerce, natural science, music, literature and drawing. The drawing gallery could accommodate about sixty artists for life drawing classes in both daylight and lamplight. De Lelie, seated on the podium, looks out at us.Merry Company with Fortune Teller by Valentin de Boullogne (1591-1632)/ Liechtenstein Museum/ 1631/ France/ Oil on canvas/ Baroque/ 190x267/ GenreChinese dance, by Francois Boucher (1703-1770).David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690). Flemish painter. Portrait of the Members of the Oude Voetboog Guild in Antwerp. 1643. Oil on canvas. Baroque styel. Detail. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.Mixed marriage between a Spaniard and a Person of Mixed Race - Morisco. Mestizaje - de Español y mulata : Morisco. Painting on copper. 48 x 36 cm. 18th century. Madrid, Museum of America. Author: ANONYMOUS. Location: MUSEO DE AMERICA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.Life in countryside (detail)Metsu, Gabriel (1629-1667) National Gallery, London Painting 38,4x32,2 Genre A Man and a Woman seated by a Virginal'Luncheon'. Spain, Circa 1617. Dimensions: 108,5x102 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Diego Velázquez de Silva.Garden party by Louis de Caulery, Oil on canvas, circa 1620, circa 1582-1621, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage, 51x44The Gossips. Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala (1842-1871). Oil on panel. Dated 1867. 31.5 x 40.5cm.The traveller's rest, by Jan Steen (1626-1679).The Denial of Saint Peter. SPAIN. Sevilla. Cathedral. Work by the Caravaggio school. Baroque art. Oil on canvas.Supper at Emmaus by Michelangelo Caravaggio, tempera and oil on canvas, 1601, 1571-1610, Roman School, England, London, National Gallery, 141x196,2FISHMARKET, by Joachim Beuckelaer, 1568, Netherlandish, Northern Renaissance oil painting. This daily fish market represents the new genre of still-life painting, celebrating abundance and commerce in Antwerp. Northern Netherlands artists turned to secular themes when Calvinist Iconoclasm of 1566, limited the market for religious subjects (BSLOC_2017_16_121)Román Ribera Cirera / El pintor, siglo XIX. Colección privada.The Harlots Progress Scene in Bridewell From the original pictue by Hogarth from The Works of Hogarth published London 1833 , Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated,The mainmen of the Saaining in Amsterdam, 1643, Dirck Dircksz. Van Santvoort, 1643 painting The leaders of the Saainging in Amsterdam in 1643, seated in chairs around a table. On the right an open book and an ink set. Being depicted (from left to right): the servant Jan Stockmans, Jacques de Win, Pieter Noordijck, Gerrit Kuycken and Gerrit Anslo. canvas. oil paint (paint) board of a guild. historical persons. officers trusted with control of qualityThree Regentesses and the 'House Mother' of the Amsterdam Lepers' Asylum. Three regentesses and the housemistress of the Leper-House, Amsterdam. Dating: 1624. Measurements: support: h 132 cm × w 189.5 cm; w 31.2 kg. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Werner van den Valckert.The Rommel-Pot Player. Date/Period: Ca. 1618-22. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 106 mm (4.17 in); Width: 80.30 mm (3.16 in). Author: FRANS HALS.Preparations for a Feast, 1575-1625 Attributed to (previously): Pieter Aertsen, Delft School Attributed to (previously): Cornelis J Delff, Dutch School Attributed to (previously): Cornelis van Haarlem Attributed to (previously): Michiel van Mierevelt Attributed to (previously): Cornelis Engelsz Verspronck Attributed to (previously): Floris van Schooten Attributed to (previously): Pieter Pietersz Attributed to (previously): Jan Anthonisz van Ravesteyn, Oil Painting, Kitchen, Food, Old Master, Domestic scene, CookIndustry and Idleness The industrious prentice out of his time and married to his master s daughter From the original design by Hogarth from The Works of Hogarth published London 1833 , Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated,A Group Portrait of Twelve Gentlemen in an Interior. Gillis van Tilborch (circa 1625-circa 1678). Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 166-. 139 x 209.5cm.Christiaan Huygens (14 April 1629 ñ 8 July 1695). Dutch mathematician and scientist. He is known particularly as an astronomer, physicist, probabilist and horologist His most famous invention was a pendulum clock that improved the accuracy of timekeeping enormouslyGuerra del Francés, siglo XIX. Llegada del sumado del santo Pedor a Manresa. Museo comarcal Manresa. Museum: MUSEU COMARCAL DE MANRESA. Author: FRANCESC CUIXART I BARJAU.A Burial at Ornans, 1849-1850, by Gustave Courbet (1819-1877). Detail.France, Nantes, Moneychanger and his wifeYoung Husband: First Marketing 1854 Oil on canvas Lilly Martin Spencer; American 1822-1902The Winter's Tale. Act IV. Scene III. in front of the shepherd's hut. Florizel, Perdita, Shepherd, Clown, Mopsa, Dorcas, Servant, Polixenes and Camillo in disguise. From the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, published at the end of the 19th century, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not statedGroup Portrait: A Wedding Celebration Gillis van Tilborgh Flemish. Group Portrait: A Wedding Celebration 437817Beer Street and Gin Lane Gin Lane From the original design by Hogarth from The Works of Hogarth published London 1833, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not statedPaintings Of The Civic Guard World History/Misc.Kitchen Still Life with a Maid and Young Boy; Frans Snyders, Flemish, 1579 - 1657, with figures attributed to Jan Boeckhorst, German, about 1604 - 1668; mid-17th century; Oil on canvas; Unframed: 240 x 152.4 cm (94 1/2 x 60 in.), Framed: 191.1 x 276.2 x 10.2 cm (75 1/4 x 108 3/4 x 4 in.)Jesús y las samaritanas. Palacio de la Generalitat. Author: ANTONI VILADOMAT.Dirck Jacobsz (1497-1567). Dutch Renaissance painter. Group Portrait of the Amsterdam Shooting Corporation, 1561. Detail. Oil on panel. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.The people authorities. Madrid, Reina Sofia museum. Author: VALENTIN ZUBIAURRE (1879-1963). Location: MUSEO NACIONAL DE ARTE REINA SOFIA-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.MUJER EN UN ALMACEN CN FRUTAS Y VERDURAS CON UN LORO Y UN MONO A LA DERECHA - SIGLO XVII - BARROCO ESPAÑOL COPIA DE FRANS SNYDERS (1579-1657). Author: P GARCIA (S XVII). Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.ECONOMIA SIGLO XVI. "EL CAMBISTA Y SU MUJER" (1514). Oleo sobre madera, obra del pintor flamenco Quentin MASSYS (1465/66-1530). Museo del Louvre. París. Francia.BAUCHANT, Andr_ (1873-1958). The Commemoration of the Liberation. 1945. Naive art. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. LE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou (Georges Pompidou National Art and Culture Centre).The Governors of the Guild of St Luke, Haarlem, 1675. Group portrait of the residence of the Sint Lucasgilde in Haarlem, 1675. From left to right: Wouter Knyff, Jan de Bray, Gerrit Mulaet, Jan Golingh, Jan Claesz Marselis, Dirck de Bray and Jan de Jongh. The Silversmith Mulraet holds a driven plaque in his hand with an image of the Saint Lucas. Two paintings with landscapes against the wall.The grand market, ca 1580, by Francesco Bassano II (1549-1592), oil on canvas. Detail.Apelles Painting Campaspe, Haecht, Willem van (1593-1637)LAS MENINAS - DETALLE - MARIA AGUSTINA OFRECE UN BUCARO A LA INFANTA MARGARITA - SIGLO XVII - BARROCO ESPAÑOL - CONJUNTO 106240. Author: DIEGO VELAZQUEZ (1599-1660). Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.Girl Eating Oysters, by Jan Steen, circa 1660, Royal Art Gallery, Mauritshuis Museum, The Hague, Netherlands, EuropeIn a Roman Osteria by Bloch, Carl (1834-1890) Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen 1866 Oil on canvas 149x177,5 Denmark Academic art Genre PaintingThree Young Musicians. Antoine Le Nain (France, Laon, circa 1588-1648). France, circa 1630. Paintings. Oil on woodFour Regents and the House Father’ of the Amsterdam Lepers’ Asylum, Werner van den Valckert, 1624TIPOS POPULARES MADRILEÑOS - VENDEDORA DE NARANJAS - SIGLO XVIII. Author: LORENZO TIEPOLO. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.Still Life, 1643, Pieter Claesz., Dutch, 1597-1661, 27 1/8 x 34 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. (68.9 x 88.27 x 3.18 cm) (panel), Oil on panel, Netherlands, 17th century, Claesz was one of the most important Dutch still-life painters of the 1600s, depicting objects with an extraordinary sense of naturalism. Everything on the table, from the fluted glass and goblet to the lobster and crab, is indeed life-like. You can almost smell the lemons. The Dutch proudly displayed such expensive status symbols in their homes, the exotic food and material possessions reminding them of the good things in life, even as the watch reminds them of their transience. The bread and wine, in a touch of Christian symbolism, echo the moralizing message of vanitas, or vanity: all earthly things must pass.Andres de Islas (active c.1753-1775). Mexican painter. Castes. From tente in the air and mulatto, albarrazado, 1774. Museum of America. Madrid. Spain.The Superintendents of the Collegium Medicum in Amsterdam, 1683. Dating: 1683. Measurements: h 261 cm × w 378 cm; d 10 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: ADRIAEN BACKER.A Bleaching Field, Jacob Maris, 1870 painting A woman lays sheets or laundry on the floor of a Bleekveld closed with fencing. In the middle is a woman at a water pump. In the background the houses of a city and a church. canvas. oil paint (paint) bleaching (laundering)ALBAN, Vicente (18th c.). Indian Woman in Fine Costume. 1783. Painting of Castas. Quito School. Colonial baroque. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. America's Museum.ARRAU, Jos_ (1802-1872). Muttiny of the Rambla. 19th c. Popular riot (5th August 1835). Oil on canvas. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Barcelona City History Museum.From Spanish and Indian, Mestizo (De Español y India sale Mestizo) Mexican. , early 18th century. Oil on canvas, 31 1/2 × 40 3/16 in., 29 lb. (80 × 102.1 cm, 13.15kg). Mexico defines the Caribbean basins western border. There, in the eighteenth century, casta (caste) paintings recorded racial mixing through a series of imagined family groups for a largely European audience. In this example, a well-dressed Spanish man, his indigenous wife, and their mestizo child drink pulque, the once-sacred indigenous beverage made from the fermented sap of the maguey plant. The elaborate classifications and hierarchy of Spains caste system, in which white Spaniards were the most privileged, emerged as an effort to impose order throughout the empire on an increasingly diverse society. México define la frontera occidental de la cuenca del Caribe. Ahí, en el siglo dieciocho, las pinturas de casta documentaron la mezcla racial, a través de una serie de pinturas de familias imaginadas, para un público From Wolf and Black: Chinese. c. 1775 -1800. Painting num. 9. Casta paintings. Mexican school. Colonial baroque. Painting. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. America's Museum.FIESTA VASCA. Author: DARIO DE REGOYOS VALDES. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.