Author: Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Mar. 18 to May 13, 1984, two other dates
Title: Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting
Description: 1984. Hardbound. Brown cloth with color illustrated dustjacket. 397 pp. 127 color, numerous bw plates. Issued in conjunction with a series of 1984 exhibitions. "The Dutch in the seventeenth century placed a premium on naturalistic accounts of their surroundings, be they in the form of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, or scenes of everyday life -- what we have come to call 'genre' painting. With this art, the painter recorded the look, the manners, the character of those quotidian events, which comprise day-to-day existence." (p. xiii) This book features essays on both the artists and on life and culture during this time. The catalogue addresses 127 paintings: first, in color plates, and secondly, with lengthy annotations and small BW illus. The concluding bibliography is substantial. A terrific resource. Contents as follows: Masters of Dutch genre painting / by Peter C. Sutton -- Life and culture in the golden age / by Peter C. Sutton -- Plates -- Catalogue / by Christopher Brown [and others]. VG-, some mild wear to extremities, crease in spine. DJ has a small tear at top and wear along fold on front left side.

Keywords: European; 20th Century ; Dutch Painting ; 20th Century ; Museum Exhibitions - European Art


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