Culture: Dutch Masterpieces @ Metropolitan Museum Of Art

 

(Drivebycuriosity) - Do you like Dutch Masters? New York´s amazing Metropolitan Museum of Art offers now a show with Dutch paintings from the 17th century: "Dutch Masterpieces" (through October 4, 2020 metmuseum). Above you can see a detail from  "Apollo and Aurora" by Gerard de Lairesse from 1671 (Oil on canvas; 80 1/2 x 76 1/8 in. (204.5 x 193.4 cm). She looks like an early hippy queen.

Above you can see “Moses Striking the Rock” by Abraham Bloemaert from 1596 (Oil on canvas; Dimensions: 31 3/8 x 42 1/2 in. (79.7 x 108 cm). Wild & beautiful.

Above "The Disillusioned Medea" by Paulus Bor painted ca. 1640
(Oil on canvas; 61 1/4 x 44 1/4 in. (155.6 x 112.4 cm). She looks like real.

Above Johannes Vermeer`s famous "Young Woman with a Water Pitcher" from  ca. 1662 (Oil on canvas; 18 x 16 in. (45.7 x 40.6 cm).

But I like "The Visit" better, painted by Pieter De Hooch, ca. 1657 (Oil on Wood). It seems that De Hooch was a pupil of Vermeer because he has a similar style. I really enjoy how he used the light in this image, which also is typical for Vermeer.

I also like "A Young Woman at Her Toilet with a Maid" by Gerard ter Borch the Younger from
 ca. 1650–51 (Oil on wood; 18 3/4 x 13 5/8 in. (47.6 x 34.6 cm).

Above Rembrandt`s Self-Portrait from 1660 (Oil on canvas; 31 5/8 x 26 1/2 in. (80.3 x 67.3 cm).

Above "Merry Company on a Terrace" by Jan Steen created ca. 1670 (Oil on canvas;
55 1/2 x 51 3/4 in. (141 x 131.4 cm). According to the curators this is one of "Steen’s self-deprecating depictions of his own unruly household, this painting centers on the inviting figure of his wife, who looks out at the viewer with an empty wineglass in her hand. Steen, his face flushed with drink and a comic hat on his head, sits at the far left; next to him, with a sausage in his cap, is Hans Worst, the same theatrical figure depicted by Hals in a nearby work. To this day in the Netherlands, "a household by Jan Steen" remains proverbial for disorder and domestic chaos."

Above "Drawing the Eel" by Salomon van Ruysdael from early 1650 (Oil on wood; 29 1/2 x 41 3/4 in. (74.9 x 106 cm). The curators explain: "A live eel strung on a line is plucked down by young people charging past on horseback. The contest provides the pretext for a festive gathering, allowing Ruysdael to combine his eye for local color with an evocation of limpid winter light and its reflection in the frozen skating pond below."

Above "Entrance to a Dutch Port" by Willem van de Velde II from ca. 1665 (Oil on canvas; 25 7/8 x 30 5/8 in. (65.7 x 77.8 cm).

Above "Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft" by Hendrick van Vliet from 1660 (Oil on canvas;
32 1/2 x 26 in. (82.6 x 66 cm) followed by "Still Life with Oysters, a Silver Tazza, and Glassware" by Willem Claesz Heda from 1635 (Oil on wood).


To be continued