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Detail from Vermeer's Music Lesson
2. Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer: The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse
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GERRIT DOU (LEIDEN 1613-LEIDEN 1675)

The Grocer's Shop

RCIN 405542

Dou paints a stone window frame immediately inside the real wooden frame of the painting in order to depict as great a range of objects as possible within easy reach of the viewer. This is a pictorial device: the real shop window appears in the right background. Acquired by George IV in 1817 Cat. 4
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