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Artist:
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Gerrit Dou
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Title:
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A Hermit Praying
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Date:
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1670
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Medium:
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Oil on panel
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Dimensions:
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13 1/4 x 10 5/8 x 1/4 in. (33.66 x 26.99 x 0.64 cm) (panel)
26 x 23 5/8 x 2 7/8 in. (66.04 x 60.01 x 7.3 cm) (framed)
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Credit Line:
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The William Hood Dunwoody Fund
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Location:
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Gallery 309
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Dou used a magnifying glass and very fine brushes to aid his emulation of Rembrandt's early style, in which precisely rendered details are bathed in mysterious light. A specialist in genre subjects, Dou was best known in his lifetime for representations of penitents and hermits that contained numerous references to age, mortality, and transience.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Dou, Gerrit
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Nationality:
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Dutch
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Life Dates:
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Dutch, 1613 - 1675
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Signature and Date LR (on flap of book cover): [G.Dov 167(0)] (GD interlaced)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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Frame Dutch, mid-XVII century, bolection profile in ebonized fruitwood with sight wave mouldings, ripple-and-reed panel and border mouldings, accessioned for use on Dou, 88.50.1.
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Creation Place:
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Europe, Netherlands, , ,
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Accession #:
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87.11
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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