Gerrit Dou, 1655 - An Evening School - fine art print

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This artpiece with the title An Evening School was painted by the male artist Gerrit Dou in 1655. The artpiece had the following exact dimensions: Arched top, 10 x 9 in (25,4 x 22,9 cm) and was manufactured with the techinque of oil on wood. Moveover, the work of art can be viewed in in the art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art located in New York City, New York, United States of America. This classic art artwork, which is in the public domain is provided with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Lillian M. Ellis, 1940. Creditline of the artwork: Bequest of Lillian M. Ellis, 1940. In addition to that, the alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait and has a side ratio of 1 : 1.2, which implies that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Gerrit Dou was a male painter from the Netherlands, whose style was mainly Baroque. The artist was born in the year 1613 in Leyden, South Holland, Netherlands and deceased at the age of 62 in 1675 in Leyden, South Holland, Netherlands.

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This small night scene extols the virtues of teaching (light passed on) and practice (the sharpened pen), which the much admired Aristotle recommended as paths to knowledge. The subject would have appealed to many in Dou’s city of Leiden, home of a famous university.