Genre painting
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Genre painting is the painting of genre art, which depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows
Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid by Jan Vermeer 1670/71)
Peasant Dance by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, c. 1568
The Happy Family by Jan Steen, 1668
The Smokers by Adriaen Brouwer, 1636
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
Genre painting
…Genre painting (or petit genre) is the painting of genre art, which depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it…
The Idle Servant; housemaid troubles were the subject of several of Nicolaes Maes' works.
Merry Company, by Dirck Hals
Interior with woman by Wybrand Hendriks