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5/9/2000

Gerrit Dou

Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

Rembrandt's First Pupil. In his day Gerrit Dou (1613-1675) was probably the most famous Dutch painter of them all, revered and prosperous throughout his life. He has the astonishing craftsmanship, the imagination and the variety to carry off a monographic exhibition. This show will place Gerrit Dou back among that small list of household names from the period - Rembrandt, Vermeer, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan Steen and Frans Hals.


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Rembrandt's First Pupil

Supported by Arthur & Holly Magill Foundation

In his day Gerrit Dou (1613-1675) was probably the most famous Dutch painter of them all, revered and prosperous throughout his life. He has the astonishing craftsmanship, the imagination and the variety to carry off a monographic exhibition. This show will place Gerrit Dou back among that small list of household names from the period - Rembrandt, Vermeer, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan Steen and Frans Hals.

Dou was Rembrandt's first pupil. He stayed in Leiden when his master moved to Amsterdam and established there a school of 'fine painters', specialising in small-scale, highly-detailed and jewel-like images. Dou's touch is so intricate and sure and yet so soft and atmospheric that it is impossible to 'see how it is done'. Like his master, he was fascinated by trompe l'oeil effects - often setting his scenes behind illusionistic curtains or stone niches, as if his paintings were windows opening onto a miniature world. Dou is also one of the great painters of light in the history of art, equally at home with the brilliant flooding of daylight across a room from a side window, or with the glow of a single candle-flame. His interiors breathe a luminous atmosphere; they provide the point of cross-fertilisation between the two most famous masters of light - Rembrandt and Vermeer.

Dou painted a variety of subjects, including portraiture, still-life and religious images, but he is most renowned for his scenes of daily life - mothers with children, painters in their studios, scholars, musicians, astronomers, schoolmasters and shopkeepers. These scenes are packed with details, many of which carry symbolic messages. What appears to be a simple mirror of reality in fact conceals a wealth of moralising folklore. His images have the deceptive simplicity of painted old wives' tales.

This exhibition, organised by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Dulwich Picture Gallery, will bring together about thirty-five of the finest of Dou's remarkable paintings from all periods in his long career. It is currently running in Washington until 6 August 2000 and at Dulwich from 6 September to 19 November 2000. The exhibition will then travel to Mauritshuis, The Hague, where it will be on display from 9 December 2000 to 25 February 2001.

A fully illustrated catalogue will be written by the world expert on Dou, Dr Ronni Baer, with essays supplied by other distinguished scholars of Dutch art, including the National Gallery of Art's curator in charge of the exhibition, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.

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