Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Gentleman with a Tall Hat and Gloves c.1656–1658 Oil on canvas transferred to canvas, 99.5 x 82.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van…
Rembrandt and Workshop? (1606-1669) The Apostle Paul c.1657 Oil on canvas, 131.5 x 104.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Young Woman with Earrings 1657 Oil on panel, 39.5 x 32.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Man c.1650–1660 Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 64.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This portrait is generally considered to be by Rembrandt, and is somewhat less uniformly thought to date from the 1650s. Both…
Guercino (1591-1666) Abramo ripudia Agar e Ismaele (Abraham casting out Hagar and Ishmael) 1657 Oil on canvas, 115 x 154 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Guercino sets the story of Abraham, aged 100, casting out the slave Hagar and their…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Las hilanderas, o La fábula de Aracne (The Spinners or The Fable of Arachne) 1655–1660 Oil on canvas, 220 x 289 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This painting is the result of two acts carried out in…
(1604–1657) Floris Soop in Art: Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Standard Bearer, Floris Soop 1654 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) A Maid Asleep (Slapend meisje) 1656–1657 Oil on canvas, 87.6 x 76.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The misbehavior of unsupervised maidservants was a common subject for seventeenth-century Dutch painters. Yet in his depiction of a…
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (Brieflezend meisje bij het venster) c.1657–1659 Oil on canvas, 83 x 64.5 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) Officer and Laughing Girl (De soldaat en het lachende meisje) c.1657 Oil on canvas, 50.5 x 46 cm Frick Collection, New York In what may be one of the first works of his mature style, Vermeer transforms the…