Gerrit dou

A young woman holding a hare with a boy at a window

The world of baroque paintings intrigues by imposing quite simple paradigmata in an implosive and complex expression, so often artificial for the young generation. It is the world of those who learned in silence, following the drive nosce te ipsum,

Gerrit Dou (1613–1675) Detail: cloth, flower pot, brass jug, maid, bird cage, pottery, jugs, dishes, knife, window, boy, curtain, fireplace, box with shoulder strap

Page of Trumpet-Player in front of a Banquet by DOU, Gerrit in the Web Gallery of Art, a searchable image collection and database of European painting, sculpture and architecture (200-1900)

Astronomer by Candlelight (detail), Gerrit Dou, late 1650s

A scholar in his study

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A sleeping dog beside a terracotta jug, a basket, a pair of clogs and a pile of kindling wood

Gerrit Dou (1613-1675), one of Rembrandt’s first students, was born thirteen years before his contemporary Jan Steen and died four years before him. Both painted similar works of contrasting light and dark, both lived most of their lives in Leiden, and both included in their work several scenes illustrating healthcare in the Netherlands in the