Interior with a Woman Washing Her Hands

~Most of the painters of cabinet pictures active during the last decades of the seventeenth century were versatile. They represented biblical, historical, and mythological events, made bespoke portraits, and depicted genre scenes. But few grasped the importance of the precious discovery made by their predecessors: the significance of...

~~The final artists to be discussed in this book, Godfried Schalcken, Eglon van der Neer, and Adriaen van der Werff, are grouped together because all three enjoyed international reputations during their lifetimes. All three traveled abroad and van der Neer and van...