Continuing our visit to The Hague's Mauritshuis...
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Johannes Moreelse, Democritus, The Laughing Philosopher, 1630; hmmm...
maybe I should look him up in Wikipedia |
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A great van Ruisdale...View of Harlem, with Bleaching Grounds, 1670 |
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Gimme a Big Head, Rene Sance, 1713 |
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At this point I was getting undisciplined again, failing to shoot the labels...but this is
a version of Jan Steen's great "As the old do, the young copy" (my lousy paraphrase)...
in which the old indeed are misbehaving, and in which the young follow... |
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Mitigated somewhat by the fact that the father, here teaching his son to smoke, is
Steen himself; is there a Steen museum? |
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A more serious Steen, The Life of Man, 1665 |
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Hals' Laughing Boy, 1625 |
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Hals' portraits of Jacob Olycan and of Aletta Hannemans; a
wedding portrait, I think...separately, just in case |
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One of the really great Steens, Girl Eating Oysters, 1658;
oysters are an aphrodisiac, you understand |
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Carel Fabritius' The Goldfinch, 1654; another book come out
of the Mauritshuis |
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Vermeer before he was Vermeer...Diana and Her Nymphs, 1654 |
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And now we are in the unimaginably priceless department... Vermeer's View of
Delft, 1660, said by some to be the finest of Dutch landscapes... |
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And, The Girl...unlike in San Francisco, you could stand
right next to her and marvel...not my favorite painting, not
even my favorite Vermeer, but pretty incredible in any case |
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