From the museum website, 25 February 2000
34 paintings by 17th-century Dutch artist Gerrit Dou, Rembrandt’s first pupil, were brought together for the exhibition. Paintings from all periods of the artist’s career were presented, including scenes of daily life, portraits, still lifes, and religious images. The show was the first international exhibition dedicated to Dou’s work.
The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art and the Dulwich Picture Gallery, in association with the Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, The Hague. Ronni Baer, the Mrs. Russell W. Baker Curator of European Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings at the National Gallery of Art, were the curators. The exhibition was made possible by Shell Oil Company Foundation on behalf of the employees of Shell Oil Company. The exhibition was supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Publications
Gerrit Dou, 1613-1675: master painter in the age of Rembrandt
Ronni Baer, with contributions by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. and Annetje Boersma
Catalogue of an exhibition held in 2000 in Washington (National Gallery of Art) and London (Dulwich Picture Gallery) and in 2000-01 in The Hague (Mauritshuis)
159 pp.
Washington (National Gallery of Art) and New Haven (Yale University Press) 2000
ISBN 0-300-08369-6 (paperbound)
Gerrit Dou 1613-1675: master painter in the age of Rembrandt
Stephanie Sonntag
Brochure for exhibition held in 2000 in Washington (National Gallery of Art) 2000
Dutch edition: Gerrit Dou 1613-1675
The Hague (Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis) and Zwolle (Waanders) 2000
ISBN 90-400-9523-X