17th century, United Provinces

Dutch Golden Age

A century of portrait, domestic interior, and still-life painting produced in a new republic that had just invented the art market. Light is the subject: how it falls through a window, off a wall, against a pearl.

2 walls · 6 pieces

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Johannes Vermeer · c. 1665

The Night Watch

Rembrandt van Rijn · 1642