Jan Steen: The Drawing Lesson

$20.00 at The Getty Museum.

John Walsh 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 and illuminated by clear, soft light. Through the countless reproductions of the works of painters like de Hooch and Vermeer, these scenes have become intimately familiar: servants at their kitchen chores; women reading, daydreaming, or playing music; risqué and often riotous scenes in bedrooms or inns. Jan Steen's The…