Dose of Art #189: Clara Peeters – Still Life with Nuts, Candy and Flowers (c. 1611)
We have seen work of her before and this is another great example of her skills as a still life […]
17th century
Dose of Art #187: Willem van de Velde II – The Gust (c. 1680)
This painting and yesterday’s one are pendants, which Van de Velde finished at about the same time. And although the […]
Dose of Art #186: Willem van de Velde II – Het Kanonschot (c. 1680)
There’s no wind, the sea is flat, and the sails are hanging loose. The canon is shot as a salute […]
Dose of Art #185: Pietro Paolini – Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes (c. 1625 – 1630)
Achilles was the big hero of the Trojan War, but he died at the end of it. His mother, Thetis, […]
Dose of Art #182: Jan van Goyen – Skating on the Merwede near Dordrecht (1646)
It has been so cold the last couple of days that in many parts of The Netherlands people could skate […]
Dose of Art #180: Jacob van Ruisdael – Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem (1650)
Van Ruisdael was a Dutch painter in the Dutch Golden age and is considered to be the pre-eminent landscape artist […]
Dose of Art #172: Rembrandt van Rijn – Slaughtered Ox (1655)
Slaughtered Ox is a peculiar painting by Rembrandt who we all know from his spectacular The Nightwatch. At 95.5 by […]
Dose of Art #164: Jean-Simeon Chardin – The Ray (c. 1725-1726)
Chardin made this painting some 35 years before yesterdays coffeepot and together with its companion piece The Buffet it marked […]
Dose of Art #162: Frans Snyders – Still Life with Fruit, Dead Game, Vegetables, a live Monkey, Squirrel and Cat (before 1657)
I love the title, but the person who came up with it clearly had no imagination as it is just […]
Dose of Art #154: Peter Paul Rubens – A View of ‘Het Steen’ in the Early Morning (c. 1636)
I’m a great admirer of Rubens as there is such a variety in his work. Most of the paintings he […]