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 that he can lay out 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