Jan Steen. The Drawing Lesson

Los Angeles: J.P. Getty Museum, 1996. — 96 p. — ISBN-0892363924“Clear, solid, palpable”—this is the world of the Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, a world in which the surfaces and scenes of everyday life are rendered with impeccable care, illuminated by clear, soft light. Through the countless reproductions of the works of such painters as de Hooch and Vermeer, these scenes have become intimately familiar: servants at their kitchen chores; well-dressed women reading or playing music; risqué and often riotous scenes in bedrooms or inns—these are among the most captivating examples of the art of the Netherlands in its Golden Age.