This is an early work, dependent in style & subject matter on the peasant interiors of Isack's elder brother Adriaen. The painting apparently had a pendant, showing an interior with an old man seated by a fireplace & a woman washing a child, when it w ...

The church depicted here has not been identified. It has been suggested that the figures are taking part in a wedding ceremony. The tombstone in the foreground bears the date 1609 but this is not necessarily the date of the painting, merely a date after w ...

The building has not been identified. A christening party enters from the right. Beyond them a priest celebrates Mass & a funeral procession approaches the high altar. The paintings hanging in the church depict the Walk to Emmaus & Christ & the Woma ...

The painting is an early work by Metsu, probably dating from about 1657 when the painter had settled permanently in Amsterdam. With its meticulous rendering of the tools of the blacksmith's trade, this picture belongs to a tradition depicting trades & o ...

Wouwermans is chiefly known for his landscapes with horses & figures. Yet he also frequently painted stable interiors such as this one. There are comparable examples in Cambridge (Fitzwilliam Museum), Dresden (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen) & Munich (Alt ...

Possibly a project for a theatre rather than a view of one actually in existence. The proscenium arch is decorated with various statues & two historiated reliefs of Apollo flaying Marsyas & Pan pursuing Syrinx. The performance has sometimes been identified as Othello. Formerly attributed to the School of Bibiena
- the stage setting may well derive loosely from Bibiena-style designs. There is no very firm indication of date, but the costumes of the foreground figures seem to suggest the first half of the century.
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The artist painted many tavern scenes of this type showing peasants drinking, smoking & listening to itinerant musicians. This type of composition with groups of people in a desolate, dark room which recedes sharply into the picture space is characteris ...

Jan Steen often included his own portrait in his riotous household & inn scenes. In this raucous tavern scene, he is the man who lifts the woman's skirt. The rowdy character of the scene is further enhanced by other details with obvious erotic connotati ...

Bosboom made a number of sketches & paintings of this church, which dates from the 15th century & was partly rebuilt in the 17th century. This painting shows the south aisle & figures in 17th-century costume. It is similar to a larger painting (Amst ...

This painting shows the interior of the Buurkerk at Utrecht from the door in the north side looking south-west. The surviving structure is mostly from the 14th & 15th centuries; the multiple columns are the remains of the 13th-century building. Saenredam, in contrast to some other Dutch architectural painters, always attempted to be as faithful to reality as possible when representing existing church interiors. He usually worked from carefully measured drawings produced in the church itself. A drawing by Saenredam (Utrecht, Municipal Archives) dated 16 August 1636 shows the interior of this church from the same viewpoint, & this picture corresponds with the right half of it. The drawing above the signature represents an episode from the popular 13th-century French story of the four sons of Aymon of Dordogne. They are shown escaping on their magic horse Bayard, after one of them had killed Charlemagne's nephew. ...