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Dutch Baroque Things to know about this region…
The Dutch succeeded in securing their independence from the Spanish in the late sixteenth century. Not until 1648, however, after years of continual border skirmishes with the Spanish were the northern Netherlands officially recognized as the United Provinces of the
Netherlands ( The Dutch Republic ).
Amsterdam had the highest per capita income in Europe. That city emerged as the financial center of Europe, having founded the Bank of Amsterdam in 1609.
Due to this prosperity and the absence of an absolute ruler, political power increasingly passed into the hands of an urban patrician class of merchants and manufacturers, especially in cities such as Amsterdam, Haarlem, and Delft. That these bustling cities were all located in Holland ( the largest of the seven United Provinces ) perhaps explains why the name “Holland” is used informally to refer to the entire country.
While Spain and the southern Netherlands were Catholic, the northern Netherlands were predominantly Protestant. The prevailing Calvinism demanded a puritanical rejection of art in churches, and thus artists produced relatively little religious art in the Dutch Republic at this time (especially when compared to areas dominated by Catholicism in the wake of the
Counter- Reformation.)
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Plebian
Portraits
Still Lifes
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Secular Dutch paintings of the 1600s
Landscapes
Genre
Paintings

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Frans Hals.
. c. 1633.
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Frans Hals.
The Governors Of The Old Mena Almhouse At Haarlem, 1664.
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Frans Hals
Buffoon (Jester) Playing A Lute
1623
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Frans Hals
The Laughing Cavalier
1624
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Frans Hals
The Jolly Toper
(or The Merry Drinker)
1628-1630
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Frans Hals
Lute Player With Wine Glass
1626.

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Frans Hals
Portrait of Rene Descartres c1649.
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Rembrandt van Rijn
Self-Portrait
1660

Dutch Baroque Rembrandt van Rijn, Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632.
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Dutch Baroque Rembrandt van Rijn, The Nightwatch, 1642.
Not your typical group portrait…
The Militia Company of
Captain Frans Banning
Cocq is more commonly known as
Night Watch . This common title is , however, as a misnomer- Night
Watch is not a nocturnal scene.
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Rembrandt van Rijn, The Syndics of the Clothmaker's Guild (The Staalmeesters) 1662.
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Rembrandt van Rijn, portrait with Saskia, 1636.
Etching.
Rembrandt was known for his etchings probably even more so than his paintings. This is the only etching in which Rembrandt portrays himself and his wife Saskia, together. The scene is not a domestic one, but an allusion to the significance of marriage to the artist and his art. Rembrandt had to portray both figures in a mirror to get the light to fall across both figures from the same side. Rembrandt was well aware of the effect of reversal when printing a double portrait etched on a copperplate. The image on the plate eventually appears reversed on paper when printed. The left hand is probably shown at rest because Rembrandt was right handed and he didn't want to give the impression he was drawing with his left.
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1630

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Judith Leyster
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel c1635

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Judith Leyster
Man Offering A Woman Money
1631

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Judith Leyster
Boy Playing a Flute
1630
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c. 1660-65
Oil on canvas.

Dutch Baroque Jan Steen, The Bean Feast, 1668.
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Jan Vermeer
The Lacemaker
1665-1670

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Jan Vermeer
Allegory of the Art of Painting
1670

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Jan Vermeer
The Letter, 1630.

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Jan Vermeer
The Music Lesson
1662-1665
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Jan Vermeer
Woman Holding a Balance
C1664, Oil on canvas.
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In the painting, Vermeer has depicted a young woman holding an empty balance before a table on which stands an open jewelry box, the pearls and gold within spilling over. A blue cloth rests in the left foreground, beneath a mirror, and a window to the left — unseen save its golden curtain — provides light. Behind the woman is a painting of the Last
Judgment featuring Christ with raised, outstretched hands. The woman may have been modeled on Vermeer's wife,
Catharina Vermeer.
Although secular on the surface, many
Dutch Baroque paintings offer a glimpse of religious or spiritual affirmation despite not being hung in a church.
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Jan Vermeer
Young Woman with a Water
Pitcher, c1665.
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Jan Vermeer
The Guitar Player, 1670.
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Jan Vermeer
The Kitchenmaid c1658

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Jan Vermeer
Girl With a Pearl Earring
1665
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Dutch Baroque Willem Claez Heda, Still Life with Oysters, c. 1640s
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Dutch Baroque Pieter Claesz, Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill, 1628.
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Dutch Baroque Willem Claez Heda, Still Life with Tobacco, Wine and Pocket Watch , 1637.
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Willem Claez Heda
Banquet Piece with
Mince Pie, 1635 .

Dutch Baroque Jan van Goyen , V iew of Dordrecht from the Dordtse Kil , 1644.
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Dutch Baroque Salomon van Ruisdael, View of Deventer Seen from the Northwest , 1657.
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Dutch Baroque Jan Vermeer, View of Delft, c1661.
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Dutch Baroque Jacob van Ruisdael , Windmill at Wijk-bij-Duurst-ede , c1665.
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