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Description: Loving couple in a park spied on by children

TitleLoving couple in a park spied on by children

Creator nameWerff, Adriaen van der

Creator nationality/cultureDutch

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1694

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on panel

LocationRijksmuseum, Amsterdam

http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.6538

Accession numberSK-C-265

SubjectsPainting, Dutch--17th centuryCouples in artChildren in art

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Chapter 16: Genre, Portrait, and Cabinet-sized History Painting

Seymour Slive

Dutch Painting, 1600–1800

~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...

Author

Seymour Slive

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.306-317

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23928&redirecttoanchor=104139

Chapter subject tags:Werff, Adriaen van der, 1659-1722Troost, Cornelis, 1697-1750Portrait painting, Dutch--17th centuryPortrait painting, Dutch--18th centuryHistory painting, Dutch--17th centuryHistory painting, Dutch--18th centuryMieris, Frans van, 1689-1763Painting, Dutch--Italian influences

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