23 Dirck Hals, Woman Tearing a Letter, 1631 (45 × 55cm)

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TitleWoman Tearing a Letter

Creator nameHals, Dirck

Creator nationality/cultureDutch

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1631

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on panel

Dimensions45 × 55 cm

LocationMittelrheinisches Landesmuseum, Mainz, Germany

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsLetters in artInterior architecture in artGenre painting, Dutch--17th century

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Chapter 7: Genre Painting

Seymour Slive

Dutch Painting, 1600–1800

~~It is curious that most European languages use the French word genre, which means ‘kind’, ‘sort’, or ‘variety’, to categorize the type of painting that depicts scenes of everyday life. Precisely when or how this special usage became...

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Seymour Slive

PublisherYale University Press

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Chapter subject tags:Genre painting, Dutch--17th centuryVermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675Hooch, Pieter deSteen, Jan, 1626-1679

2. Haarlem

Wayne Franits

Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution

~~During the early decades of the seventeenth century, artists working in the cities of Haarlem and Amsterdam played crucial roles in the evolution of Dutch genre painting. That these specific cities were...

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Wayne Franits

PublisherYale University Press

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Chapter subject tags:Genre painting, Dutch--17th centuryNetherlands--Social conditions--17th centuryNetherlands--Economic conditions--17th centuryPainting, Dutch--French influencesHaarlem (Netherlands)

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