Gerrit Dou [5]

Nationality : Dutch painter, 1613-1675

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  • Title : Officer of the Marksman Society in Leiden
  • Info : classical painting 38767-Officer_of_the_Marksman_Society_in_Leiden.jpg

Oil Painting ID: 38767


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  • Title : Officer of the Marksman Society in Leiden detail
  • Info : classical painting 38768-Officer_of_the_Marksman_Society_in_Leiden_detail.jpg

Oil Painting ID: 38768


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  • Title : Old Woman Reading a Lectionary
  • Info : classical painting 38769-Old_Woman_Reading_a_Lectionary.jpg

Oil Painting ID: 38769


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  • Title : Old Woman Watering Flowers
  • Info : classical painting 38770-Old_Woman_Watering_Flowers.jpg

Oil Painting ID: 38770


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  • Title : Old Woman with a Candle
  • Info : classical painting 38771-Old_Woman_with_a_Candle.jpg

Oil Painting ID: 38771


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  • Title : Onions
  • Info : classical painting 38772-Onions.jpg

Oil Painting ID: 38772


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  • Title : Painter in his Studio
  • Info : classical painting 38773-Painter_in_his_Studio.jpg

Oil Painting ID: 38773


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  • Title : Portrait of a Woman
  • Info : classical painting 38774-Portrait_of_a_Woman.jpg

Oil Painting ID: 38774


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  • Title : Portrait of an Old Woman
  • Info : classical painting 38775-Portrait_of_an_Old_Woman.jpg

Oil Painting ID: 38775


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  • Title : Poult
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Dou, Gerrit
Gerard Dou, also known as Gerrit and Douw or Dow (April 7, 1613-February 9, 1675), was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly-polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised in genre scenes and is noted for his trompe l'oeil "niche" paintings and candlelit night-scenes with strong chiaroscuro. His first instructor in drawing and design was Bartholomew Dolendo, an engraver; and he afterwards learned the art of glass-painting under Peter Kouwhoorn. At the age of 15 he became a pupil of Rembrandt, with whom he continued for three years. From the great master of the Dutch school he acquired his skill in coloring, and in the more subtle effects of chiaroscuro; and the style of Rembrandt is reflected in several of his earlier pictures, notably in a portrait of himself at the age of 22, in the Bridge-water House gallery, and in the "Blind Tobit going to meet his Son", at Wardour Castle.

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