110 Frans van Mieris, Inn Scene, 1658 (oil on panel, 42.8 × 33.3cm)

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TitleInn Scene

Creator nameMieris, Frans van, I

Creator nationality/cultureDutch

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1658

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on panel

Dimensions42.8 × 33.3 cm

LocationMauritshuis, The Hague

https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/explore/the-collection/artworks/brothel-scene-860/

Accession number860

SubjectsDrinking in artProstitutes 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

Related print edition pages: pp.123-176

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

8. Leiden

Wayne Franits

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

~~Like many of the Province of Holland’s cities, Leiden reached the peak of its prosperity during the economically robust decades following the Treaty of Münster. Leiden already enjoyed an illustrious history as a textile production center,...

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Wayne Franits

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.115-134

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00040.011

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Chapter subject tags:Genre painting, Dutch--17th centuryNetherlands--Economic conditions--17th centuryTextile fabrics--Netherlands--17th centuryNetherlands--Emigration and immigration--17th centuryDou, Gerard, 1613-1675Emblem books, DutchMieris, Frans van, 1635-1681Brekelenkam, Quiringh Gerritsz., approximately 1620-1668Leiden (Netherlands)

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