Genre art
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Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, work, and street scenes. S
The Idle Servant; housemaid troubles were the subject of several of Nicolaes Maes' works.
Peasant Dance, c. 1568, oil on wood, by Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Merry Company, by Dirck Hals
Interior with woman by Wybrand Hendriks
Nicolaes Maes
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Nicolaes Maes was a Dutch painter known for his genre scenes, portraits, religious compositions and the occasional still life. A pupil of Rembrandt in Amsterdam, he returned to work in his native city
Genre art
…The Idle Servant; housemaid troubles were the subject of several of Nicolaes Maes' works. Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings…
Self-portrait, c. 1685
Two chattering housewives
The eavesdropper
Dismissal of Hagar and Ishmael