Gerard Dou

(1613–1675) nederländsk målare

Gerard Dou (1613–1675) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Gerard Dou belongs to the chapter ‘The Baroque’ in this site’s history of art.

Gerard Dou was born in Leiden and died in Leiden. The teachers included Rembrandt and Jan Goossensz. van Dulmen. Gerard Dou worked in Leiden. Wikidata associates Gerard Dou with Dutch Golden Age painting and fijnschilder. The students included Gabriel Metsu.

The best-known works include ‘The Young Mother’, ‘Young Woman Holding a Lamp’, ‘Man Smoking a Pipe’, and ‘The Dropsical Woman’. The catalogue has 250 works by Gerard Dou with free images. The dated works span the years 1628–1880. Works by Gerard Dou are held by several collections, among them Département des peintures du Louvre, Leiden Collection, Dresdens nationella konstsamlingar, and Wellcome Collection. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The Baroque’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Lubin Baugin, Joannes Meyssens, Louis Ferdinand Elle l'Aîné, Bartholomeus van der Helst, and François Chauveau.

• The Baroque
• The Young Mother
• Portrait of an old woman reading
• The Quack
• Self-Portrait
• Den vattusiktiga
• A Hermit
• The Physician