Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668), bekannt als passionierter Pferdemaler, variierte sein beliebtes Hauptmotiv erfindungsreich in einer breiten Palette von Themen. Das Katalogbuch entdeckt den Haarlemer Meister wieder, dessen malerisch brillante Gemälde zu Lebzeiten höhere Preise erzielen konnten als Werke von Rembrandt und Vermeer.

Portrait art of Holland's Golden Age is one of the most fascinating phenomena in the history of Western art, distinguished by a powerful realism, an immense diversity and, above all, a high artistic level. The National Gallery in London and the Mauritshuis in The Hague are mounting a major exhibition on the subject in 2007. The main thread running through the exhibition is the chronological development of the portrait, interwoven with several themes like the individual portrait, the double portrait, the family portrait, the group portrait, militia and regents portraits as well as children's portraits.Within each theme a selection of works are being shown which offer imposing and also exciting juxtapositions. In this accessible publication all the exhibited paintings are illustrated in colour and have accompanying information. The texts are prefaced by three lavishly illustrated essays on the development of portraiture in the northern part of the Netherlands and the costumes worn in portraits.

This lavishly illustrated book includes all of van Mieris' 35 paintings and ten of his drawings reproduced in full color and accompanied by brief explanatory commentaries. Included are essays on the artist's life, the development of his oeuvre and appreciation of his work through the centuries.

During the seventeenth century, Dutch artists were unparalleled in their dedication to depicting ordinary people doing everyday things. Genre painting was the preeminent expression of this dedication, offering candid glimpses into the peasant cottages and village courtyards of the Dutch Golden Age, each painting lit with the period's vibrant color palette and rich with radiant natural light. This superb collection by the curators of an accompanying exhibition focuses on a selection of works of Dutch genre painting from the Royal Collection's holdings. Johannes Vermeer, Jan Steen, Gerrit Dou, Gabriel Metsu, and Pieter de Hooch are among the masters whose works are finely reproduced here. While the subject matter may be ordinary--the preparation of food, the bustle of a busy market, the enjoyment of taverns and town festivities--the meticulously documented details often allude to a work's deeper meaning or to moral messages that would have been familiar to the contemporary viewer. The book explores these hidden moral messages, as well as the artists' penchant for clever visual puns. Readers interested in the Dutch Golden Age or seventeenth-century art will welcome this volume. Individual essays on each painting, close-up photography showing important details, and a selection of comparative images add to the book's richness and provide valuable context.

Collection includes work from all the great master s of the Dutch Golden Age. Discusses over 150 paintings in depth.

This gem of a museum, housed in a graceful seventeenth-century lake-side mansion in The Hague, has a fine collection of Dutch and Flemish art. King William I gave the collection to the Dutch state after it was returned from France, and the house and its contents were officially opened as a museum in 1822. Among its treasures are self portraits by Rembrandt as well as The anatomy lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp, Vermeer's View of Delft (recently restored), and paintings by Holbein, Rubens, Frans Hals and Van Dyck. Also present are some of the finest examples of landscape and still life paintings to have been produced in the Dutch Golden Age.

Genreschilderijen hebben het dagelijks leven tot onderwerp, variërend van boerentaferelen tot chique interieurscènes. Regelmatig bevatten de voorstellingen een wijze les die soms voor zichzelf spreekt, maar in andere gevallen slechts met enige moeite kan worden ontrafeld.De collectie van ruim 100 Hollandse en Vlaamse genrestukken van het Mauritshuis behoort tot de absolute wereldtop met meesterwerken van specialisten als Jan Steen, Frans van Mieris, Gerard ter Borch, Adriaen van Ostade, Gabriël Metsu, Gerrit Dou en David Teniers. De conservatoren en restauratoren van het Mauritshuis geven in deze nieuwe, rijk geïllustreerde en complete bestandscatalogus hun actuele, wetenschappelijke visie op alle genrestukken in de collectie. In twee inleidende essays komt de ontwikkeling van de genreschilderkunst uitvoerig aan bod en wordt ingegaan op de schildertechniek van deze rauwe of juist verstilde taferelen, die ons blijven verbazen.

This catalogue will be published to accompany the first ever exhibition of Golden Age Dutch pictures in the collection of the National Trust, which will be shown at the Mauritshuis in The Hague, the Holburne Museum in Bath and at Petworth House in West Sussex (2018-19). Celebrating the enduring British taste for collecting Dutch paintings from the long seventeenth century, this exhibition catalogue will explore why and how this particular type of art was desired, commissioned and displayed, through the consideration of Golden Age masterpieces from a number of National Trust houses. It will feature portraits, still lifes, religious pictures, maritime paintings, landscapes, genre paintings and history pictures, painted by celebrated artists such as Rembrandt, Lievens, Hobbema, Cuyp, De Heem, Ter Borch and Metsu, as well as less well-known artists such as De Baen and Van Diest. The National Trust has the largest collection of art in the British Isles, including many great masterpieces, amassed by key patrons and displayed in some of the country's greatest houses. Dutch Golden Age pictures form an important part of this collection, and National Trust houses with particularly important collections of Dutch pictures include Ham House, Dyrham Park, Ascott, Upton House and Polesden Lacey.