Identifier: artofnetherlandg00prey (find matches)
Title: The art of the Netherland galleries : being a history of the Dutch school of painting illuminated and demonstrated by critical descriptions of the great paintings in the many galleries
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Preyer, David C. (David Charles), 1861-1913
Subjects: Art museums Painting
Publisher: Boston : L.C. Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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at century. We find also in thiscabinet a very small oval portrait bust of the poetConstantyn Huygens, by Caspar Netscher, whose Mothers Cares/ one of his best pictures, hangsnear; also two little panels by van Slingeland, ofminiature execution, of which A Family Musi-cale is of his first period, showing some weaknessin the drawing of the figures, but exquisite in de-tails. Of especial interest are two Gerard Dous. TheCurious One shows a young girl, leaning outof a window, with a lighted lamp in her hand. The^ Evening School is, however, of greater interest,because of the difference of opinion it has createdamong connoisseurs. Some claim it to be one ofhis most famous works, excelling in its minutedetails and its remarkable management of the lighteffect, the school-room being illuminated by fivecandles. Others decry this tour-de-force, and de-plore a lack of spontaneity in the ingenious com-bination of these various light spots. While thislittle picture shows a surmounting of the most
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7.BOSBOOM CHURCH INTERIOR Plate XXXIV(See page 291) Municipal Museuft^ r-j\A^Amsterdam. ^ B^ TOIlalfts UbrouQb tbe Galleries 265 difficult light problems, it may not be consideredthe highest ideal of art, for the obstacles are ap-parently sought to display ingenuity, whereas thebest art is simple, unstudied for eflfect. In thiscabinet are also found three examples by the lastpainter of the 17th century school, Adriaen van derWerff, in whose work the decadence and final de-composition of that glorious art may be recognized. In Cabinet 270 is a very fine view of a Regattaby Johannes van de Cappelle, of whom little isknown; a Fish-market, by Dusart; a Poultry-ped-dler, by Willem van Mieris; a Turbulent Sea, byW. van de Velde; and an Italian Landscape, byHackaert. We have now come to Room 268, called the Pa-vilion Room, in the corner of the building, whichis divided by screens into three parts. In the firstdivision are found the self-portraits of differentartists of the Dutch school, and

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