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11/27/2020

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03/06/2020

Life smiles on the cheerful givers.

Jacob Ochtervelt paints a young boy offering alms to a family of beggars. The households maid tenderly holds his hand while his parents, visible through the open doorway, proudly observe their son’s charity—a virtue of great importance to the Dutch. Because the boy is still so young, he wears his hair in long curls along white a dress, as was common for boys until the age of around seven.

Throughout his career, Ochtervelt focused on luxurious life and leisure. However, his most innovative scenes were those depicting the interactions between the upper and lower classes. known as “voorhuis,” or front hall, scenes. Created in the height of his career, “A Nurse and a Child in an Elegant Foyer” is considered one of his most elegant “voorhuis” paintings, characterized by Ochtervelt’s clarity of light, color, and sympathetic rendering of people from all social classes.

Jacob Ochtervelt, “A Nurse and a Child in an Elegant Foyer,” 1633, oil on canvas, on view in gallery 50 in the West Building

03/05/2020

Happy Valentine's Day from FAPE!
Image: Kerry James Marshall, "Vignette (Wishing Well)," 2010. Gift of Jack Shear.

03/02/2020

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