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DOU, Gerrit
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1661
Oil_on_oak,_31_x_23_cm
Wallraf-Richartz_Museum,_Cologne
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Oil on oak, 31 x 23 cm
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne |
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Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1613-1675
Dutch painter. The first and most famous member of the group of artists referred to as the LEIDEN 'FINE' PAINTERS, he specialized in small-format paintings, the details and surfaces of which are carefully observed and meticulously rendered. He was greatly praised as a painter of artificial light by Samuel van Hoogstraten in 1678, and he was responsible for popularizing both the night scene and the 'niche' format, pictorial devices ultimately derived from the art of his famous master, Rembrandt.
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