"Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting" by Adriaan Waiboer

Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting Inspiration and Rivalry Adriaan Waiboer, Arthur K. Wheelock, Blaise Ducos, Eric Jan Sluijter, Piet Bakker, E. Melanie Gifford, Marjorie E. Wieseman, Quentin Buvelot, Lisha Deming Glinsman, Eddy Schavemaker

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Format:: Hardback
Publication date:: 21 Feb 2017
ISBN:: 9780300222937
Imprint:: Yale University Press
Dimensions:: 320 pages: 292 x 241mm
Illustrations:: 180 color illus.

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A landmark exploration of the engaging network of relationships among genre painters of the Dutch Golden Age

The genre painting of the Dutch Golden Age between 1650 and 1675 ranks among the highest pinnacles of Western European art. The virtuosity of these works, as this book demonstrates, was achieved in part thanks to a vibrant artistic rivalry among numerous first-rate genre painters working in different cities across the Dutch Republic. They drew inspiration from each other’s painting, and then tried to surpass each other in technical prowess and aesthetic appeal.

The Delft master Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675) is now the most renowned of these painters of everyday life. Though he is frequently portrayed as an enigmatic figure who worked largely in isolation, the essays here reveal that Vermeer’s subjects, compositions, and figure types in fact owe much to works by artists from other Dutch cities. Enlivened with 180 superb illustrations, Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting highlights the relationships – comparative and competitive – among Vermeer and his contemporaries, including Gerrit Dou, Gerard ter Borch, Jan Steen, Pieter de Hooch, Gabriel Metsu, and Frans van Mieris.

Adriaan E. Waiboer is curator of northern European art at the National Gallery of Ireland. Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. is curator of northern baroque paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Blaise Ducos is curator of 17th-and 18th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings at the Musée du Louvre.