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Gerrit Dou

[Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1613-1675]

• Also known as:  Gerard Dou
• Relationships: Studied under Rembrandt van Rijn.
Dou's students included Quirijn van Brekelenkam, Frans van Mieris and Godfried Schalcken.
• Browse all:  Dutch artists
 


 
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
La Devideuse (The spinning reel)
La Liseuse (The Reader)


Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Herring Seller, ca.1670-75
Portrait of a Man, ca.1640-45
Old Woman Unreeling Threads, ca.1660-65

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Prince Rupert, 1631
Astronomer by Candlelight, 1655

Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German)  

Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
The Violin Player, 1653 (Zoom)

Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague

Gerrit Dou at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
2 works by Gerrit Dou online

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
A Hermit Praying, 1670

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Gerrit Dou at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Hermit, 1670

Gerrit Dou at the National Gallery, London, UK
A Poulterer's Shop
Portrait of a Young Woman
Self Portrait


Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Gerrit Dou at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Old Woman Reading a Lectionary (Rembrandt's Mother), ca.1630
Self Portrait, ca.1650
The Night School

Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)  
12 works by Gerrit Dou online

The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")

Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
St. Jerome in the Desert

Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, UK
Self Portrait

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand   NEW!
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
A Lady playing a Clavichord

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

Manchester City Art Gallery, UK

Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula
Portrait of an Unknown Gentleman

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Still Life with a Boy Blowing Soap-bubbles, ca.1635-36

Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Austria
Self-portrait at the Window

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  
2 drawings online

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
2 paintings online

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Self-portrait (Autoritratto) of Gerrit Dou

Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest (in Hungarian)  

The Wallace Collection, London, UK

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)   NEW!  

 
Commercial Galleries:
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from past sales
A cat by the window of a painter's workshop, 1657

 
Professional Tools:
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Gerrit Dou in the Art Renewal Center

Gerrit Dou at CGFA  

Gerrit Dou at Insecula

Gerrit Dou in the Web Gallery of Art  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)  

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

Brian Yoder's Art Gallery and Critic's Corner

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

ImageNETion

The Athenaeum  

USC Annenberg School for Communication

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Other Web Sites:
FBI Art Theft Program
Boy Playing the Flute, stolen from a museum in Austria

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Gerrit Dou
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

International Herald Tribune
"The Enchanting Gerrit Dou," article by Souren Melikian

  
 
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